Tom Miller

Tom Miller

Strings Department Chair, Cello & Bass

B.M.E., University of Nebraska at Omaha

M.A.T., Morningside University

Tom holds music education degrees from the University of Nebraska at Omaha

(Undergraduate) and Morningside University (Graduate). Having over 20 years of teaching

experience, Tom has taught strings, show choir, theater, and art in both the Sioux City

Community and Omaha Public Schools District. He currently works at Boys Town where he has

created and teaches a middle school fine arts elective program (art, theater, and music). He

has been a recipient of the Nebraska ASTA Outstanding Teacher of the Year award and the

Omaha Public Schools Alice Buffett Outstanding Teacher award. He currently serves as past-

president for Nebraska ASTA, a sectional coach for the Omaha Area Youth Orchestras, and as

Director of Alternative Programming, The Branch Out Series, for the Shelterbelt Theater.

As an active performer throughout the community, Tom has performed both nationally and

internationally. As a professional bassist, he has played with Harry Connick, Michael W. Smith,

Josh Groban, the Nelson Riddle Orchestra, the Mantovani Tour Orchestra, the North American

Tour of Spamalot, the National Composer’s Orchestra, as Principal Bass for the Sioux City

Symphony, Orchestra Omaha, and served as a guest artist for the Jazz Series at Buena Vista

University. He has also directed, been on stage, and in the pit orchestras for over 200 musical

and theater productions.

Tom is an avid lover of all things pop culture, and tends to intergrade movie, musical, and pop

music into his teachings.