Born in Melbourne in 2002, Australian cellist Charlotte Miles is a current postgraduate student of Prof. Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt at the Hochschule für Musik “Franz Liszt” in Weimar, Germany. A recent graduate of the University of Melbourne and the Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) where she studied with Howard Penny, she was the winner of both the 2021 ANAM Concerto Competition and the 2021 ANAM Best Recital Performance Prize. Benefitting from masterclasses with cellists including Jean-Guihen Queyras, Nicolas Altstaedt, Clemens Hagen, Torleif Thedéen, Wen-Sinn Yang, Johannes Goritski, Maria Kliegel, David Finckel and Alban Gerhardt, Charlotte was invited to the prestigious 2016 Piatigorsky International Cello Festival in Los Angeles, where she performed alongside leading cellists such as Mischa Maisky, Truls Mørk, Sol Gabetta and Giovanni Sollima.
Awarded over 100 Australian and international competition prizes, she has performed at Carnegie Hall (NYC) and Opera Bastille (Paris), and was a major prize-winner at the 2018 Gisborne (NZ) International Music Competition and the 2020 “Anna Kull” International Cello Competition in Graz (AT). In 2019, she was the 3MBS Radio Young Performer of the Year and winner of the Australian National Young Virtuoso Award, and in 2023, she was a semi-finalist at the 4th International Krzysztof Penderecki Cello Competition in Kraków (PL).
A passionate soloist and chamber musician, Charlotte has performed at the Australian Festival of Chamber Music, the Sanguine Estate and Bendigo Chamber Music Festivals, the Melbourne Cello Festival, the ACO’s Tarrawarra and Vasse Felix Festivals, and on Australian Digital Concert Hall; she has toured extensively with the Australian Youth Orchestra and the Melbourne Chamber Orchestra, and appears regularly with the Staatskapelle Weimar. Highlights of this season include performances at the Landshut (DE), Oxford May (UK) and Stamford International (UK) chamber music festivals, and a collaborative cross-disciplinary project with Jean-Guihen Queyras with performances at the Festival Rencontres Musicales de Haute-Provence (FR) and the Cello Biennale Amsterdam (NL). Her chamber music collaborators include Timothy Ridout, Christian Tetzlaff, Ilya Gringolts, Matthew Hunt, Jack Liebeck, Peter Laul, Christel Lee, Julian Bliss and Charles Owen. Recent solo highlights have included Tchaikovsky and Elgar concerti with the Corpus Medicorum, Bendigo and Maroondah symphony orchestras, a Vivaldi concerto with ACO Collective, and a collaboration with accordionist James Crabb and the ANAM Orchestra. She has toured regularly with the Australian Youth Orchestra, the Melbourne Chamber Orchestra, and the Staatskapelle Weimar. In 2022, Charlotte was an AYO Fellow with both the Melbourne and Adelaide Symphony Orchestras, and an Emerging Artist with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, and has since toured nationally with both the ACO and ACO Collective. In 2024, she is an academist with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra.
Charlotte’s postgraduate studies are generously supported by scholarships from the Australian Music Foundation, the Ian Potter Cultural Trust, the Musical Society of Victoria and the University of Melbourne; she performs on a c.1760 Joseph Hill cello kindly on loan from an Australian collection.
Details last updated: May 9, 2024