Kirk Patrick Miller studied with renowned teachers such as William Starr, Professor James Maurer, and found his ideal mentor when he was accepted to study with the world-renowned Harold Wippler, whose students have won prestigious competitions including The Paganini, Tchaikovsky, and Wieniawski.
Mr. Miller feels that a good teacher is not only a student of music but of the body and the mind, keeping up with the latest research such as neuroplasticity and how our brains adapt and learn in this new age of technology. With over 20 years of teaching, Mr. Miller has shown consistent success with students, many of which hold Concert Master positions and won competitions and scholarships. Regardless of the child’s age or skill level, Mr. Miller is proud to pass on the teaching, techniques, musicality, and traditions set forth by Leopold Auer, Efrem Zimbalist, and Harold Wippler.
MENTAL HEALTH AND EDUCATION
Kirk Patrick Miller is an award-winning author, mental health and transformational coach, violinist, and speaker. His improbable recovery, utilizing a medication protocol that now shows clinical value in meta studies, led to requests for him to write and publish his award-nominated and winning memoir “Chaos to Cured”.
HIPPA and media-trained, he began his coaching under the supervision and guidance of Dr. Robert Simon, MD. After nearly two decades of helping others overcome their struggles and reach their potential, his range of personal experiences continues to guide his students and clients toward a life of empowerment and resiliency.
He is available for personal, couple, child, or family coaching. He can also be hired as a short-notice radio/podcast guest, and as a keynote speaker.
Mr. Miller’s mission and passion is to help as many as possible recover and thrive, regardless of the challenges they face.
If you’re ready to dream it, I can help you achieve it. ~Kirk Patrick Miller
Mr. Miller, married to Ann I. Miller, believes that everyone remains a student with more to learn. This is one reason that Mr. Miller continues to study and consult with Harold Wippler, the former Concert Master of the Denver Orchestra. Mr. Miller also feels that a good teacher is not only a student of music, but of the body and the mind, keeping up with the latest research such as neuroplasticity and how our brains adapt and learn in this new age of technology. With over 20 years of teaching, Mr. Miller has shown consistent success with his students, many of which hold the Concert Master position of their respective orchestras. Others have had success in competitions and with scholarships. Regardless of the child’s age or skill level, Mr. Miller is proud to pass on the teaching, techniques, musicality, and traditions set forth by Leopold Auer, Efrem Zimbalist, and Harold Wippler.
As we face a new generation of students that are bombarded with the cacophony of technology and visual stimuli, understanding how they think and learn is imperative. Therefore, Mr. Miller works with industry leaders in teaching and is currently working on a new book with Jeffery Freed, New York Times bestselling author as they search for more effective teaching techniques for today’s students.
Over the past thirty years Mr. Miller has performed the following pieces as a featured soloist:
- Paganini Concerto 1 and 2
- Paganini 24 Caprices
- Sibelius Violin Concerto in D minor
- Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto
- Brahms Violin Concerto
- Brahms Sonatas
- Bruch Violin Concerto #1 in g minor
- Beethoven Violin Concerto
- Beethoven Sonata No. 9 “Kreutzer”
- Beethoven Sonata No. 6 “Spring”
- Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in e minor
- Wieniawski Violin Concerto #2 in d minor
- Wieniawski’s Scherzo Tarantelle
- Wieniawski’s Legende
- Lalo Symphonie Espagnole, Op. 21
- Sarasate’s Carmen Fantasy
- Sarasate’s Zigeunerweisen, Op. 20
- Sarasate’s Caprice Basque
- Sarasate’s Introduction and Tarantella
- Sarasate’s Malanguena
- Sarasate’s Habanera
- Havanaise by Saint Saens
- Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso by Saint Saens
- Mozart Concerto # 3
- Mozart Concerto # 4
- Mozart Concerto # 5
- Mozart Sonatas
- All Bach Violin Concertos
- Bach Solo Partitas and Sonatas
- Bach Double
- Vivaldi Four Seasons
This is a small list for reference, but if you have any further questions, Mr. Miller is happy to provide a full list of pieces he has learned and performed under his mentor’s tutelage.[/ultimate_modal]
Specialty | Teaching the basic fundamentals and bringing a student to a competitive, collegiate, and professional level. Mrs. Beck’s ability to understand, teach, and explain the nuances of the great masters and any music is unsurpassed. Her main instrument is the piano, however, she enjoys teaching and playing the violin as another musical outlet.
Focus | Instilling a deep love and appreciation for music while guiding each student to their individual potential and finding their strengths and passion. Mrs. Beck is never afraid to venture “outside the box” to the delight of all students.
Background | Mrs. Beck has been a guest soloist with multiple orchestras since the age of eight, including the Breckenridge National Repertory Orchestra, Centennial Orchestra, as well as other Boulder, Denver, and Colorado orchestras. She was honored as the All-State Choir accompanist two years in a row and soloed at their final performance. She had multiple offers from colleges, but chose to stay closer to home with a four year full ride scholarship for piano performance at the University of Colorado in Boulder.
Influential Mentors | Raffi Kasparian, Harold Wippler, Larry Graham, and Robin Sutherland
Interests |Teaching and supporting, accompanying, playing for enjoyment, guiding her two daughters musically as well as in the educational field, psychology, working with students that have challenges, higher math, reading, staying in touch within the musical field and all the developments that occur . . . For more info, please feel free to read further.
Mrs. Beck started with both the violin and the piano when she was almost five. She excelled so rapidly with the piano that at age seven she was invited to a master class with Robin Sutherland, student of Rosina Lhevinne, who asked her family if they were willing to relocate so that she could study with him. She won multiple competitions and debuted as a soloist with the Breckenridge Music Festival Orchestra before the age of eleven. By the age of twelve Mrs. Beck began studying with Professor Larry Graham at the University of Colorado. Although Mrs. Beck was offered a place at Juilliard School of Music, she felt that Professor Graham, student of Van Cliburn and the audience favorite at the renowned International Queen Elisabeth Music Competition.
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Specialty | Molding and guiding young minds to be kind, respectful, and appreciative of music and all the skills that come with mastering it.
Focus | Fundamentals for easy crossover into deeper and more challenging pieces.
Influential Mentors | Jim Dalton, Royce Tyson, Orin Abbott.
Interests | Teaching, Technology, Languages, Research, Horses, Medicine, Behavioral Psychology, and Cars.
Linked-In | Jean A. Miller
Jean Abbott Miller began playing organ and piano at the age of 4 ½, and began accompanying soloists and her school choirs by the age of 12. She competed, played at church services, for weddings, college graduations and other social and professional engagements. Jeanne is a native Coloradoan and attended Wheat Ridge High School and played both solo performances and as an accompanist for the singers, choirs and the annual school musicals.
Throughout her college years, Jeanne continued her studies at Colorado Women’s College under the guidance of Phyllis Tremmel, specializing in the Baroque Era and style, while enjoying the pipe organ and its specialized music repertoire. She played for various commercial engagements, competitions on both the organ and the piano, and accompanying at all given opportunities. Although Jeanne liked to solo, she found that she was most fulfilled as an accompanist and teacher, enjoying the camaraderie and insight that was to be had only within the one-on-one relationships.
She started teaching at the age of 18 and although she was offered a full scholarship to Stanford and Harvard for pre-law and accepted to multiple schools for music, she remained in Colorado with her husband where she majored in Music Performance, Russian, German, and Italian.
Finding herself as the COO of businesses in the heart of Keystone, Colorado, Jeanne found her path had changed and began teaching again. Jeanne eventually decided to back away from the corporate world and obtain her teaching certificate. Graduating magna cum laude from Regis University, Jeanne found that she preferred to continue to teach one-on-one as opposed to a classroom setting. Teaching and watching the growth of children is her main passion.
She has taught piano ever since and has seen many of her young students become adults as she continues to challenge and reward each and every student. Not only did her teaching reach others, it touched her children as both Kirk and Chandi were to take an instrument. Eventually, weekly trips from Summit County to Denver went on for twelve years to ensure that Kirk and Chandi had the correct background and instruction needed for the piano and violin.
Jeanne continues her love of music with many activities that amplify her personal enjoyment and growth as well as her development as a teacher. Jeanne practices the piano every day and has added the challenge of the violin to her daily regimen, as well. She attends seminars and symphony performances on a regular basis to keep abreast of new ideas and happenings in the music world, and to continually enjoy one of life’s greatest gifts….music[/ultimate_modal]