Timothy Miles was appointed Director of Bands at Exeter High School in 2007. He conducts the Marching Band, Concert Band, Symphonic Band, Percussion Ensemble, Jazz Band, Orchestra, and Pit Orchestra, as well as teaching courses in Music Technology and Composition, the History of Rock and Roll, and Beginning Guitar. Mr. Miles earned a bachelor of music in music education and a master of arts in music history at the University of New Hampshire. He also earned a postgraduate diploma in music composition at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.
Under Mr. Miles direction the Exeter High School Band has performed a joint concert with the University of New Hampshire Wind Ensemble in 2009, and has been twice invited to perform at the University of New Hampshire's Wind Band Invitational in 2012 and 2017. During his tenure the band curriculum has been revised so that the band meets by grade level and instrumentation to better focus on the educational needs of the developing student musicians. Mr. Miles also oversaw the creation of the Orchestra program.
Mr. Miles has twice conducted bands at the University of New Hampshire's Summer Youth Music School Junior Session in 2008 and 2016. He was the conductor of the 2010 Northern District (NH) Middle School Music Festival Band. For two years, Mr. Miles chaired the New Hampshire Music Educators' Composition Contest focusing on encouraging composers from grade school through the university level.
Mr. Miles is also an composer and arranger. His concert band works have been commissioned by high schools and universities in the United States. He has had performances in the United States, Great Britain, and Asia. In 2006, he conducted the University of New Hampshire Wind Symphony in the premier of his wind ensemble transcription of Joseph Schwanter’s Beyond Autumn: Poem for Horn and Orchestra. In 2008, the editor of GIA Publications’s Composers on Composing for Band, Mark Camphouse, asked him to contribute a chapter to the fourth and final volume dedicated to “young and emerging composers.” In 2009 his wind band piece Lauda was the second place winner in the Second Frank Ticheli Composition Contest and is available from Manhattan Beach Music. Lauda was also selected for Volume 9 of Teaching Music Through Performance in Band (GIA Publications). Recent work include his Symphony No. 2 written for the Acton-Boxborough (MA) High School Band in 2015, In Flanders Fields written for the Cooperative Middle School 8th Grade Band, Orchestra, and Choir in 2018, and a new work for the Canonsburg (PA) Middle School Band for 2020.
Mr. Miles lives in Exeter with his wife Laura, an English teacher at EHS, and his children Isla and Calum.