Jody Miller, Music Director
Jody Miller has been the Music Director for Lauda Musicam of Atlanta since its formation in 2009. Prior to that, he was the Director of the Emory Early Music Ensemble from 1999 to 2009. Jody works to give amateur and pre-professional musicians an opportunity to study and perform early music. Former ensemble members have gone on to perform professionally, teach in formal settings, and direct ensembles of their own. From 2023 to 2025, he served as Music Director then consultant for Lauda Musicam of Austin (Texas).
Jody directs Lauda Musicam’s Renaissance Band and Lauda Musicam’s Baroque Orchestra. He also oversees the various consorts and coaches them as needed.
Firmly planted in the early music community, he is President of the American Recorder Society Board of Directors as well as Director of Mountain Collegium Early Music & Folk Music Workshop. He is in demand as an in-person and online instructor for private and group study. In addition to a large studio of private recorder students, he has recently directed workshops and playing sessions for Carolina Mountains Recorder Society, Triad Early Music Society, Washington DC Recorder Society, Sarasota Recorder Society, University of North Carolina at Greensboro Summer Music Camp, the Texas Toot, San Francisco Early Music Society Recorder Workshop, Atlanta Recorder Society, and Atlanta Midwinter Workshop.
Jody is primarily known as a recorder player but he also has a strong interested in Renaissance reed instruments. He performs with Sol Divino 17th Century Ensemble and Amethyst Baroque Ensemble. Recent major performances include Benjamin Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream with the Atlanta Opera, Claudio Moteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea with the Cincinnati Opera, John Adams’s A Flowering Tree with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, and, of course, Ludwig Göransson’s Mandalorian Theme with the Georgia Philharmonic Orchestra.