Robert Miller, MS, MT-BC has been a musician throughout his life. He started on piano at age four and began playing percussion in 3rd grade. He formally studied voice at West Chester University under Dr. David Sprenkle. It was there he started learning guitar and played the recorder and crumhorn in the school’s Renaissance instrumental ensemble.

It was on a trip with this group to the PA Renaissance Faire in 1999 where Robert first heard the Hammered Dulcimer, played by Sondra Bromka of Bells and Motely. He never forgot the sound. A few years later he came across it again at a music festival in Harrisburgh, PA, this time played by Mary-Grace Autumn Lee in the Celtic Nu-Folk band Seasons.

In October 2017 Robert purchased his first Hammered Dulcimer, a 12/11 instrument made by George Balderose. Soon after his Aunt gifted him a 15/14 dulcimer she had purchased from Dan Landrum some years before. In 2019 Robert won the Mid-East Regional Hammered Dulcimer Championship in Coshocton, OH and competed, but did not place, in the National Hammer Dulcimer Championship. That year he began studying regularly with Karen Alley, the 2014 National Hammered Dulcimer Champion.