Dominic Miller

Visiting Professor

In the course of his career, he collaborated with great artists like Tina Turner, Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins, and Sting. But it’s his guitar skills that consecrated him as one of the most esteemed artists of the rock, pop, and jazz panorama.

He moved to England during his teenage years to study at the Guildhall School of Music in London where he began to move the first steps in the music world. By the end of the Eighties onwards, he was one of the most requested artists and started recording and touring with performers the likes of The Pretenders, Phil Collins, Paul Young.

In 1981 he established a strong working relationship with Sting that continues to this day. He appeared both as guitarist and author in almost every album by the ex-Police starting from the Nineties and Sting himself described him as «my right and left hand, hands that breathed life to everything my clumsy fingers can’t play». Moreover, he collaborated significantly on albums by Ronan Keating, LeAnn Rimes, and many more.

He debuted as a soloist with First Touch in 1995, a “classical guitar” album with delicate and soft arrangements in which he was able to balance, thanks to his infinite experience, rock, jazz, and pop sounds.

In 2002 was the turn of New Dawn, two years later Shapes was released and in 2008 In a Dream, that was recorded with the Grammy-nominated Peter Kater.

In 2012 Miller released with Ponderosa Music & Art his fifth artistic effort, 5th HOUSE. On the album, for which he was accompanied by world-class musicians like drummer Vinnie Colaiuta (one of the most requested session men in the world), bassist Pino Palladino (collaborator of Paul Young, The Who, and Peter Gabriel), and Mike Lindup (ex Level 42), Dominic proposed captivating music and great class. Atmospheres between the most elegant jazz and pop that Miller elevated at the highest level. After having published in 2016 the collaboration with Manolito Simonet, Hecho en Cuba, Miller signed with ECM Records and debuted with the label with Silent Light. In 2019 followed a second release with ECM, Absinthe. On the record the artist’s Argentinian roots were more preeminent than ever, aided by the use of the bandoneon that is usually employed for tangos but on the album was inserted in the wider context of the sound.