Joe Miller grew up in New Jersey and started playing baritone horn in the 4th grade. Due to the wisdom of a middle school band director, and the fact that his arms finally became long enough, he started playing the trombone in the 7th grade. It's stuck with him ever since. After a well-persecuted, but appreciated run in the Hackettstown (NJ) High School band program, Joe attended business school at Virginia Tech, but continued to study trombone under the tutelage of Jay Crone - Blacksburg's finest player and teacher of the Slide-Enabled-Wind-Powered-Pitch-Approximator.
Joe's performance credits include numerous competition and honorary wind ensembles and jazz bands, the New River Valley Symphony, the Virginia Tech Wind Ensemble and Symphony Band, the VT Trombone and Low Brass ensembles, Slide by Slide - the Atlanta Trombone Ensemble, a solo recital in the VT trombone studio, a solo performance with the Hackettstown High School concert band, and as a member of the Metropolitan Trombone Quartet, of which he is a founding member. The trombone has also led to other opportunities such as leading the 36 member trombone section of the Marching Virginians, participation in The St. Mark Brass, and co-directing a high school band program (all in his spare time).
Joe plays a Conn 88H Symphony Artist trombone with a thin-walled rose brass bell. It's more expensive than a Red Ryder BB gun, but you can't shoot your eye out with it.
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