Born in Melbourne in 2002, Australian cellist Charlotte Miles captivates audiences with her “keen musical intelligence, assured technique and honeyed tone” (Sydney Morning Herald). Awarded over 100 Australian and international competition prizes, Charlotte was recently a semi-finalist at the 73rd International ARD Cello Competition in Munich in 2024, winning the special prize of the Mozart-Gesellschaft München, and a semi-finalist at the 4th International Krzysztof Penderecki Cello Competition in Kraków (PL) in 2023. She has performed as a soloist with the Munich Chamber Orchestra, Kremerata Baltica, ACO Collective, the Corpus Medicorum, Bendigo, Preston, Surrey Hills and Maroondah symphony orchestras and the ANAM Orchestra, amongst numerous others, and was a 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.
After completing undergraduate studies at the University of Melbourne and with Howard Penny at the Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM), where in 2021 she won both the Concerto Competition and the Best Recital Performance Prize, Charlotte is completing her Master’s degree at the Hochschule für Musik ‘Franz Liszt’ in Weimar with Prof. Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt, with whom she will continue studying from March 2025 in the Professional Studies Program at the Kronberg Academy. She has benefitted from the guidance of cellists including Jean-Guihen Queyras, Nicolas Altstaedt, Jens-Peter Maintz, Clemens Hagen, Torleif Thedéen, Wen-Sinn Yang, Johannes Goritski, Maria Kliegel, David Finckel and Alban Gerhardt, and 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.
A passionate soloist and chamber musician, recent highlights have included 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, Ilya Gringolts, Matthew Hunt, Jack Liebeck, Richard Galliano, Peter Laul, Julian Bliss and Charles Owen. Within Australia, she 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 with the Australian String Quartet, the Melbourne Chamber Orchestra, the Australian Youth Orchestra, and the Staatskapelle Weimar. In 2022, she 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 was an academist with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, and from 2025, she is a substitute with the Berlin Philharmonic. She performs on a c.1760 Joseph Hill cello kindly on loan from an Australian collection.
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