Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Alex Miller holds degrees in composition and guitar from the Eastman School of Music and the University of Colorado at Boulder, and will soon begin doctoral studies in composition at the University of Southern California. A guitarist since the age of eleven, he is deeply interested in composing music for this instrument and is currently writing a new solo for guitarist Nicholas Goluses, under whom he studied at Eastman. His music has been played by pianist Ulrika Davidsson and cellist Fern Glass-Boyd; it was featured at the Society of Composers Region VIII Conference at the University of Montana and has been performed on the Gamper & Pendulum New Music Festivals, in Brunswick, Maine and Boulder, Colorado respectively. As a performer, he has played with the Ossia New Music Ensemble in Rochester, New York, and participated in master classes with guitarists John Williams, Phillip Houghton and the Castellani-Andriaccio Duo. During the summer, he teaches guitar at Camp Ballibay, a fine and performing arts camp for teenagers in Pennsylvania. He enjoys teaching and hopes to work as a professor upon completing his studies.