Dominic Miller was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1960. He spent his boyhood in Argentina, moving to Racine, Wisconsin in 1970. He started to learn guitar at the age of 15, and later studied with Sabastio Tapajos and at London's Guildhall School of Music where his contemporaries included violinist Nigel Kennedy and Mike Lindup of Level 42. He met producer Hugh Padgham in 1989, which led to him playing on Phil Collins' But Seriously album and then working with Sting in 1990 on the recording of The Soul Cages album. Dominic has worked with Sting on every album and tour since, and Sting describes him as being "my right hand and my left hand."
Dominic is one of the most respected session guitarists around, always in demand, and has worked on a vast array of recordings with some of the world's most respected musicians including The Pretenders, Paul Young, Level 42, Steve Winwood, Sheryl Crow, Peter Gabriel, Rick Wright, Rod Stewart, and Luciano Pavarotti. As well as handling guitar duties for Sting, Dominic is a member of the occasional group "The Tweeters" with fellow session legends bassist Pino Palladino and drummer Manu Katché. "It's a terrible name", Dominic admits, "but that was the best name that we could come up with!"
Dominic has released several solo albums: 1995's First Touch, 1999's Second Nature, 2002's New Dawn (with Neil Stacey) and 2004's Third World. In 2003 Dominic topped the UK classical chart with Shapes, an album of new interpretations of popular classics by composers including Bach, Beethoven, Elgar and Albinoni. Shapes was released internationally in March 2004 with a slightly different tracklisting and its sales are now in excess of 100,000.
"The making of Shapes has been a voyage of discovery for me. I have been in the enviable position of recording a collection of some of the greatest works of classical music ever written with the best people in the business," Dominic says. "Coming from a more pop or contemporary world it was important for me to approach these works in a way that I could relate to which started off by deconstructing the pieces purely for the sake of understanding their workings and nature and then rebuilding them. The result is like a diary or photo album of this voyage, which is my pleasure to share with all music lovers."
Dominic is playing guitar with Sting on his Sacred Love and Broken Music tours into 2005. For a list of tour dates visit
www.sting.com. Dominic will also be appearing at the Bath Guitar Festival in August 2005.
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