Co-Founder, Artistic Director, Conductor

Jonathan Miller

Jonathan began his life in choral music during ten years in the Chicago Children’s Choir (now Uniting Voices Chicago). Over a 40-year career combining the roles of musician and nonprofit arts visionary, Jon has conducted singers at all skill levels from complete beginners to professionals. In 1993 he founded the virtuoso ensemble Chicago a cappella and served as its artistic director for 27 years. For his efforts there, including his skills in choral programming, he was awarded the Botto Award for entrepreneurship and innovation by Chorus America. In 2016, Jon co-founded Sounds Good Choir with his wife, Sandy Siegel Miller. He currently co-conducts the Gold Coast, Evanston, and Hinsdale Sounds Good Choirs and conducts the Good Memories Choir downtown. Jon is a former board member of Chorus America and has been a grants panelist for the Illinois Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts. He has composed or arranged more than 200 works for choir; his publishers include Walton, Hinshaw, and Hal Leonard. A noted expert on Jewish choral music, Jon has served on the faculty of the North American Jewish Choral Festival, presenting workshops on the music of Max Janowski, one of his earliest mentors. Jon has guest-conducted Kol Zimrah, the Chicago area’s Jewish community choir, serves as one of the high-holiday cantors at Congregation Rodfei Zedek in Hyde Park, and helps to lead the Musical Shabbat worship team at West Suburban Temple Har Zion in River Forest.