Thom Miles

Thom Miles is the organist at Lakeside Presbyterian Church and the Organist/Director of Music at Isaac M. Wise Temple, Cincinnati, Ohio. Thom holds Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees from Colorado State University. He also received the Premier Prix in Organ from the Montreal Conservatory of Music. He did additional study at The University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. Major teachers have included Robert Cavarra, Bernard Lagacé and Roberta Gary.

In 2005 he played a key role in the preservation and restoration of the 1866 Koehnken & Co. organ in the Plum Street Temple. Thom recorded on this historic instrument for Arsis Audio immediately after the restoration (Arsis CD 157). He has also recorded the three Organ Sonatas of Paul Hindemith and Four Preludes on Jewish Tunes by William Bolcom on the Noack organ at Lakeside. (Arsis CD 169). Thom and his wife, Roberta Gary, are both certified Andover Educators and present workshops on the topic of Body Mapping. Both Miles and Gary made a contribution to the book What Every Pianist Needs to Know About the Body with Supplementary Material for Organists (GIA Publications).