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DCI Colts

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2021 Colts Drum & Bugle Corps - Leap of Faith

Michael J. Miller, Brass Arranger
Mark Hunter, Battery Arranger
Sean Womack, Front Ensemble Arranger
CJ Barrow, Sound Design

Colts 2021 - Leap of Faith

Santa Clara Vanguard 2012-Music of The Starry Night

The Silk Road performed by the Colts Drum and Bugle Corps at the 2022 Drum Corps International World Championships. Music by Michael J. Miller, Mark Hunter, Sean Womack, and CJ Barrow.

Colts 2022 - The Silk Road

Colts 2023 - Where The Heart Is

1989 Santa Clara Vanguard. Yall are Welcome

1989 Santa Clara Vanguard - The Phantom Of The Opera - Full Show

Colts 2024 - On Fields

Cincinnati Tradition 2024 - From a Stone

Carolina Crown - Inferno (DCI Finals)HQ

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2015 Bluecoats - Kinetic Noise - 03 - 96.925

Bluecoats 2005- Caravan

The Blue Devils 2011 Production 'The Beat My Heart Skipped'

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The Blue Devils - The Beat My Heart Skipped (2011) [CD Quality]

Carolina Crown 2016 - Relentless 97.088

Blue Knights 2014 - That One Second DCI (High Quality)

From 1984 Drum Corps International, the Dubuque Colts (including Pat Welsch) played:
Stardust,
Swing, Swing, Swing
Peninsula,
Night in Tunisia,
What's New
(Photo from 1985 Colts. Ken and Dave Welsch are in there somewhere.)

DCI 1984 Colts

Santa Clara Vanguard 1999 Inventions For A New Millenium

Blue Devils 1997- “As Time Goes By...”

Colts 1996- “The Magnificat”

Colts 1995- “Sunday in the Park with George”

Colts 1994- “Relations and Romance”

Colts 1993- “Iowa’s Four Seasons”

Michael J. Miller is a composer and arranger living in Nashville, TN. His works for concert band, orchestra, and chamber ensembles are available from Alfred Music, Carl Fischer Music, F.J.H. Music, Excelcia Music, Murphy Music, R.W.S. Music, and Tapspace. Michael's music is regularly performed nationally and abroad, including recent performances at the Midwest International Band and Orchestra Clinic in Chicago, and the Jeju Composition Competition for Wind Ensemble in South Korea.

Michael is currently the brass arranger for the Colts Drum & Bugle Corps from Dubuque, IA. He also designs competitive pageantry shows for indoor and outdoor ensembles across the United States through a partnership with Synced Up Designs. His music for college band has been performed at the Superbowl as well as at numerous B.C.S. bowl games.

In addition to his design engagements, Michael serves as an adjudicator for competitive pageantry organizations at the state and national level including Music For All's Bands of America Championships.

Before dedicating himself to composition full time, Michael was a public-school band director. Under his leadership, the Joe E. Newsome High School band (Lithia, FL) earned the Florida Bandmasters Association’s Otto Kraushaar award, was named B.O.A. Regional Grand Champions, qualified for W.G.I. World Championships Finals, and performed in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Michael was awarded the School Board of Hernando County’s Hernando H.E.R.O.E.S. Award, and the Superintendent’s Excellence Award. Additionally, he received the National Band Association's Certificate of Merit for outstanding contributions to marching bands.

Michael holds a Master of Music degree in Instrumental Conducting from the University of Florida and a Bachelor of Music Education degree from Syracuse University. He is a member of the Music Educators National Conference, the National Band Association, the World Association for Symphonic Bands and Ensembles, and is a brother of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia.

Michael is happily married to his wife and best friend, Vivian. When he isn’t writing music or working with a musical ensemble, he enjoys traveling the world and experiencing the food culture wherever he goes.