Dr. William E. (Bill) Miles
Bill is a highly experienced music educator and director, as well as a versatile performing musician in contemporary music and jazz. He has been involved in amateur musical theatre and conducted and directed many instrumental and choral ensembles in educational institutions and the community.
Bill also presents a regular radio program on 3MBS.
He holds a Bachelor of Music Education from the University of Colorado at Boulder (1975), a Master of Arts, Preliminary (1982) from LaTrobe University majoring in music composition and analysis, and a PhD in Music Education (2006) from Monash University, where he was a lecturer and teaching fellow from 1997-99.
Other achievements in music and eduction:
Bill also presents a regular radio program on 3MBS.
He holds a Bachelor of Music Education from the University of Colorado at Boulder (1975), a Master of Arts, Preliminary (1982) from LaTrobe University majoring in music composition and analysis, and a PhD in Music Education (2006) from Monash University, where he was a lecturer and teaching fellow from 1997-99.
Other achievements in music and eduction:
- He has lectured at Melbourne, Monash and RMIT Universities and the Australian Catholic University (ACU). From 1998 to 2004 Bill developed and lectured a unit in multimedia and new media production for Monash’s Faculty of Information Technology at Monash (Clayton).
- At RMIT University (2000–04) Bill was Acting Program Director of the Bachelor of Music Industry Studies, the Graduate Certificate & Graduate Diploma of Visual and Performing Arts and the GradCert, GradDip and Master of Arts Administration courses and lectured units within each of those programs.
- At the Australian Catholic University (Melbourne, 2007–15) he was the lecturer-in-charge of the Graduate Diploma in Education (Music) and Master of Teaching - Secondary (Music) courses and from 2012 to 2018 he lectured in music pedagogy at the Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music, Monash University.
