Julia Miller is a professional recorder player and is presently conducting Doctoral research in music for her PhD at the University of Antwerp and Royal Conservatory of Antwerp, Belgium. Her research focuses on the sixteenth-century use of recorders and unwritten historical performance practice parameters.

She received her Masters of Music in Recorder Performance, cum laude, at the Lemmensinstuut, in Leuven, Belgium, (2005) where she studied with Bart Coen; her Masters of Music in Chamber Music Performance, cum laude (2007); her Music Teacher’s Diploma, magna um laude, also at the Lemmensinstituut, (2006) in addition to earlier university and conservatory education.

During her studies she participated in numerous early music and recorder master classes, the Amherst Early Music Festival Baroque Academy, and Amherst Virtuoso Recorder Program, with classes and lessons there from Marion Verbruggen, Han Tol, Saskia Coolen, Geert van Gele, and members of the Flanders Recorder Quartet, as well as master classes at the Boston Early Music Festival and in Belgium. She was awarded numerous scholarships from the American Recorder Society and Amherst Early Music.

She is a founding member of the Ensemble Hemera (2005- ) whose core group consists of recorder, soprano singer and organ, with other guests according to the needs of Hemera’s programs. Hemera’s concerts are carefully researched and developed, and have included premieres of recently rediscovered early works. Hemera has performed in Holland and in numerous places across Belgium. Julia Miller has performed as well in Switzerland, Canada and the United States.

Julia Miller has extensive experience teaching music to children and adults, as individuals and in groups. A research paper which she presented to an international musicology conference will be published later in 2012 by the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences.