Jeff Miller was born among the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. Before moving to London he gained a Bachelor's degree in Music Education from the Shenandoah Conservatory of Music and a Master of Music in Tuba from the Mannes College of Music, Manhattan. Jeff's tutors have included David Fedderly of the Julliard School, David Taylor, NYC bass trombonist extraordinaire, and tuba virtuoso Roger Bobo.

As a performer on the serpent, ophicleide, saxhorns, and both early and modern tubas, he has toured the world and recorded with a wide range of fabulous musicians in diverse contexts, including Sir John Eliot Gardiner’s Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, The King’s Consort, and the Prince Regent’s Band. In a more modern context, he has toured and recorded with crossover groups such as medieval jazz fusion group Ars Supernova, the Hackney Colliery Band, and the Spike Orchestra.

In addition to performance practice, his historical music research focuses on the interplay between social context, developing technologies, and innovations in brass instrument design. In contemporary settings, Jeff’s instruments include the tuba, bass trombone, sousaphone, and modular synthesisers. His modern music explores the integration of brass instruments with electronics, particularly in live solo and chamber music contexts, with an emphasis on improvisation and interplay between performers. Jeff is currently pursuing a PhD at the Centre for Digital Music Research (Queen Mary University of London), researching the creation of mathematical tonal spaces to model harmonic sequences and chord similarity.