Marcus G. Miller

About Marcus G. Miller

Marcus has performed at the Obama White House, Madison Square Garden, The World Economic Forum at Davos, The Montreux Jazz Festival, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert alongside Jon Batiste, and Carnegie Hall. In addition, he has worked with jazz giants ELEW and Jazzmeia Horn, as well as major artists like The Fugees and Madonna. He is a regular at Daybreaker, touring with them on Oprah’s 2020 vision tour. In 2015 he was noted as an Artist of Distinction by the state of New Jersey. In 2019 he served as musical director for the award nominated Playing Hot, a play about Buddy Bolden, the Father of Jazz. He performed flute on Jon Batiste’s Grammy Winning Album, We Are.Marcus has also continued his work in mathematics and physics by giving talks and performances that combine Math and Music. In November 2022 he was invited to be the inaugural Artist in Residence with the Brown University Physics Department. He has been featured at the Grace Farms Foundation, Falling Walls 2020 Conference, TEDSummit 2019, TEDxOttawa 2019, University of Georgia, University of Michigan, and venues in Istanbul, Hong Kong. From 20••••19 he held a regular series series at the National Museum of Mathematics in New York City. In 2023, Marcus will continue to serves as Musical Advisor to the Grace Farms Foundation where he curates major artists for music and discussion, gives performances on the relationship between beauty and logic, and helps to investigate the intersection of music and architecture in a way that informs the Foundations mission on sustainability in the environment and supply chain. Marcus believes that the kind of beauty accessible through mathematics, music, and other human acts of creativity draws out the best in us, making us, as individuals and as a human race, more courageous, focused, kind, generative, imaginative, humble, and wise.

Experience

1. Music Advisor

   Grace Farms Foundation

   Aug 2022 — Present · New Canaan, CT, US