Muzetta Swann Miller
Executive Director/Founder
Muzetta Swann Miller received a Master of Music Degree in Voice Performance from Belmont University, December 2006. She earned a Bachelor of Music Degree in Voice Performance, with a minor in piano from Westminster Choir College, Princeton, NJ, in 1982. As a recitalist, she has in New York, New Jersey, Kentucky and Tennessee. As a member of the world-renowned Westminster Choir, she performed with Zubin Mehta and the New York Philharmonic among others, at Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall. She was a member of the chorus-in-residence at the Spoleto Festival USA, Charleston, SC, and the Festival dei Due Mondi, Spoleto, Italy. Her teachers have included Daniel Pratt, Lucille David, Alan Seale, Martin Katz and most recently, Dr. Keith Moore.
As an arts administrator, she was employed by the New York City Opera under General Manager Beverly Sills where she facilitated the education and membership programs of the New York City Opera Guild. She also worked as the assistant to the orchestra manager with the Nashville Symphony. Muzetta has actively studied arts administration at The Center for Nonprofit Management since 2007, focusing on grant writing, nonprofit leadership and fundraising.
Mrs. Miller taught K-8 music at Nashville’s Westminster School, a school for students with learning disabilities. She has served as Music Director and Organist at Greenbrier Methodist Church, First Presbyterian Church, Springfield; organist at First United Methodist Church, Springfield; a paid singer at St. James Episcopal Church, New York City, St. George Episcopal and First Presbyterian Churches, Nashville; and currently is Minister of Music at Central Christian Church, Springfield.
From 1989-1999, she studied, taught and served on the Board of Directors at Nashville’s Sound Health Alternatives, a school for the awareness and healing of the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual parts of ourselves.
Mrs. Miller maintained a full-time voice and piano studio in Springfield from 1989-2009. In addition to classical music instruction, she offers classes in the expressive arts while using them as tools for self-awareness, growth and expression.
She has conducted Handel’s Messiah with the Robertson County Choral Society. As a recording session artist, she sang back-up with Michael W. Smith on his 2007 CD, It’s a Wonderful Christmas. While serving as Adjunct Professor of Music at Volunteer State Community College, she taught voice and music appreciation.
In July 2007, Mrs. Miller founded Willow Oak Center for Arts & Learning in Robertson County and is the fulltime Executive Director. She has served as director of the children’s chorus, co-director of the adult chorale, and a member of the faculty. Each year, Willow Oak serves more than 1,000 children and adults at its location on South Main Street in Springfield, as well as 14,000 people in its community outreach programs.
Mrs. Miller lives in Springfield, Tennessee with her husband, Coy Miller.
