Born in Melbourne in 2002, Australian cellist Charlotte Miles captivates audiences with her “keen musical intelligence, assured technique and honeyed tone” (Sydney Morning Herald).
The first Australian student at the Kronberg Academy, where she studies with Prof. Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt in the Professional Studies Program, Charlotte recently completed her Master’s degree in his class at the Hochschule für Musik ‘Franz Liszt’ in Weimar.
She has been awarded over 100 Australian and international competition prizes, including the Mozart-Gesellschaft München Prize at the 2024 ARD Competition (Germany) and prizes at the 2018 Gisborne (New Zealand) and 2020 Anna Kull (Austria) competitions. She is a graduate of the University of Melbourne and of the Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM), where she studied with Howard Penny, and where she won both the Concerto Competition and the Most Outstanding Recital Performance Prize in 2021. In 2019, she was the 3MBS Radio Young Performer of the Year and winner of the Australian National Young Virtuoso Award.
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. A passionate chamber musician, recent highlights include the Landshut (Germany), Oxford, and Stamford May (United Kingdom) chamber festivals, the Rencontres musicales de Haute-Provence (France), the Australian Festival of Chamber Music and the Cello Biënnale Amsterdam, with collaborators including Timothy Ridout, Ilya Gringolts, Jack Liebeck and Jean-Guihen Queyras. She has toured with the Australian String Quartet and the Australian and Mahler Chamber Orchestras, and substitutes with the Berlin Philharmonic. Charlotte performs on a c.1760 Joseph Hill cello kindly on loan from an Australian collection.
