Jonathan Miller

Over a forty-year career combining the roles of musician and serial nonprofit arts entrepreneur, Jonathan Miller has conducted singers at all skill levels from complete beginners to professionals. He is Co-Founder and Artistic Director of Sounds Good Choir, where since 2016 he has conducted several of the organization’s choral ensembles for older adults and guides the artistic team. Jon began his life in choral music during ten formative years in the Chicago Children’s Choir (now Uniting Voices Chicago), singing soprano, alto, and bass. He was a founding member of His Majestie’s Clerkes (now Bella Voce) and was the bass soloist for the Harwood Early Music Ensemble from 1983-1993. In 1993 he founded the virtuoso ensemble Chicago a cappella and served as its artistic director for 27 years. Jon is a former board member of Chorus America and has been a grants panelist for the Illinois Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts; his awards include the Botto Award for Innovative Action and Entrepreneurial Zeal from Chorus America. He studied math at the University of Chicago and holds a doctorate in historical musicology at UNC-Chapel Hill. He has composed or arranged more than 200 works for choir. A leader in Jewish choral and worship music, he is a high-holiday cantor at Congregation Rodfei Zedek in Hyde Park and is on the Musical Shabbat worship team at West Suburban Temple Har Zion in River Forest.