Dr.
Robert Mills is an assistant clinical professor of Music
and the vocal coach/accompanist for Arizona State
University's Lyric Opera. Dr. Mills holds a BA in music
from the University of Maryland as well as a MM and a
DMA in Collaborative Piano from Arizona State
University. Additionally, Dr. Mills holds both a Juris
Doctor and a MLIS from Brigham Young University.
For nearly three years, Dr. Mills served as an assistant
vocal coach and accompanist for the Opera Institute at
Boston University. Currently, he is on faculty at the
American Institute of Musical Studies (AIMS) summer
program in Graz, Austria as a repetitor/coach. Dr. Mills
concertizes regularly throughout the United States
promoting American art song and has just completed a
recording on the Summit label of the song cycles of
Judith Cloud. He has collaborated with vocal artists and
technicians such as Ingo Titze, Phyllis Curtain, Andrea
Lechner and Ariel Bybee in concert, workshop and master
class settings. Dr. Mills has taught throughout the
world including invitations to the Conservatorio
Nacional de Música de México as well as the Big Bear
Lake Song Festival. Dr. Mills has performed with the
Baltimore Symphony, Phoenix Symphony, Johns Hopkins
Symphony, and the Mesa Symphony as well as with the
Grammy Award-winning Phoenix Chorale and the Three
Tenors of Mexico. Dr. Mills can be heard on the Canyon
Record label.
