Anthime Miller
Anthime Miller is a composer, cellist and teaching artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Anthime is the composer-in-residence for the Brooklyn-based devised theater companies The Circle Theater of New York and SMPL MCHN. Credits include The Mountain, which was nominated for Best Original Music at the 2015 New York Innovative Theater Awards,Trail of Crumbs, a 2015 co-production with The National Theater of Luxembourg and Wellspring, which premiered at the RADA in London in June of 2016 and Strangers in 2018. Anthime regularly works with The National Theater of Luxembourg, for whom they’ve scored Codename Ashcan (2017), L’ecûme des jours (2017) and Richard II (2022). Anthime is the Principal Cellist of the Regina Opera Company, Protestra, and a cellist with City Lyric Opera, New Amsterdam Opera as well as many other orchestras and chamber music ensembles across North America and Western Europe. In 2022, they co-founded Mini Masterworks - a chamber music series devoted to bringing large scale symphonic works into your living room with their dear friend and collaborator Sam Gray. They are delighted to be sharing their original arrangements of this exciting and ambitious second season program with you.
www.anthimemiller.com
@anthimemillermusic
Samuel Gray
Sam Gray is a New York-based violinist, violist, administrator, producer, and music contractor. He is currently the Concertmaster and Executive Director of PROTESTRA, an orchestra that advocates for social justice through classical music. Sam is also the Principal Second of Parlando Chamber Orchestra as well as a performing member of the Bronx Arts Ensemble and Rendez-Vous Orchestra.
In his performance career, Sam has shared the stage with many great performers of our time, including Cyndi Lauper, Titus Burgess, Billy Eichner, Bryan Carter, Kate Baldwin, and Nick Fradiani. Described as “immensely talented” by Broadway World, his work in musical theater has brought him to Broadhurst Theatre on Broadway, Bucks County Playhouse, and The Gateway.
A fervent believer that music is healing to the soul, Sam produces intimate chamber music performances in unconventional places around New York. He is the co-producer and co-founder of Mini Masterworks, an annual series of living room concerts, in collaboration with cellist, singer, and composer Anthime Miller.
Sam began his musical studies at the age of nine. His formative teachers include Patricia Cosand, Steven Moeckel, Sarah Plum, and Gary Kosloski. He performs on a 2014 Samuel Zygmuntowicz violin generously on loan from Jay and Michiko Jones.
www.samuelgrayviolin.com
@samgray93