11Our Staff

Holden Miller

Associate Director of Music and Organist

Contact Info

Phone : (225) 383-4777 ext. 222
Email : hmiller@firstmethodist.org

About Holden

Holden Miller, a native of Greeneville, Tennessee, is Associate Director of Music and Organist at First United Methodist Church of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. In 2022, he graduated from Baylor University with a Masters of Music in Organ Performance where he studied organ with Isabelle Demers and choral conducting with Lynne Gackle. Previously he attended St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota for a Bachelor of Music in Church Music and Organ as a student of James E. Bobb and Catherine Rodland. Concert tours with the renowned St. Olaf Choir under the direction of Anton Armstrong across the United States and internationally to Norway were a highlight of his experience.

In 2017, Holden was a featured young artist in the Wiener Memorial Organ Series at Central Synagogue in the heart of Manhattan. As a promising young musician dedicating his life to excellence in church music, Holden was awarded the 2018 Don Marler Church Music Scholarship from West End United Methodist Church in Nashville, Tennessee. Additionally, Holden is honored to be the 2018-2019 Rodland Scholar. The Rodland Scholarship is awarded to a promising church musician at St. Olaf in honor of the life and legacy of the late Rev. John R. Rodland who served alongside his wife, Joanne, as a Minister of Music at West Side Presbyterian Church in Rutherford, New Jersey, and contributed extensively to the Presbyterian Hymnal (1990 Edition).