Charlotte Miles

Born in Melbourne in 2002, Australian cellist Charlotte Miles captivates audiences with her “keen musical intelligence, assured technique and honeyed tone” (Sydney Morning Herald). Recently named the winner of the 2026 Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) Young Performers Awards, she has been awarded over 100 national and international competition prizes, including the special prize of the Mozart-Gesellschaft München at the 73rd ARD International Cello Competition in 2024. Recent and upcoming solo highlights include appearances with the Munich Chamber Orchestra, Kremerata Baltica, the Sydney, Melbourne and Queensland symphony orchestras, the Australian Youth Orchestra, the Australian Chamber Orchestra Collective, the Corpus Medicorum Symphony Orchestra and the ANAM Orchestra, amongst numerous others. The 2025 recipient of the Melbourne Prize for Music’s Professional Development Award, Miles was prize-winner at the 2018 Gisborne (NZ) International Music Competition and the 2020 “Anna Kull” International Cello Competition in Graz (AT), and in 2019 she was named the 3MBS Radio Young Performer of the Year and won the National Young Virtuoso Award.

The first Australian student at the Kronberg Academy, where she was awarded the 2025 Altkönig-Stift Prize, Miles studies with Prof. Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt in Kronberg’s Professional Studies Program, after graduating with the highest possible marks from her Master’s degree in his class at the Hochschule für Musik ‘Franz Liszt’ in Weimar. 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. She has benefitted from the insights of musicians such as Steven Isserlis, Nicolas Altstaedt, Sir András Schiff, Gidon Kremer, Jean-Guihen Queyras, Gautier Capuçon, Jens-Peter Maintz, Gary Hoffman, Kirill Gerstein, Vadim Gluzman, Clemens Hagen, Brad Mehldau, Torleif Thedéen and Alban Gerhardt, among others, 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 2025 Laureate of the Gautier Capuçon Foundation in Paris, she now tours internationally as a member of Capuçon's cello ensemble, the 'Capucelli'.

A passionate chamber musician, recent highlights have included performances at the Grafenegg (AT), 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 Biënnale Amsterdam (NL). Her chamber music collaborators include Timothy Ridout, Ilya Gringolts, Matthew Hunt, Jack Liebeck, Richard Galliano, Peter Laul, Stefan Dohr, Piers Lane, Michael Collins and Charles Owen. Within Australia, Miles appears frequently at the Australian Festival of Chamber Music, and has performed at 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 is a regular guest musician with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, the Australian String Quartet, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra (hr-Sinfonieorchester), the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, and the Berlin Philharmonic. Her studies in Kronberg are supported by the Bubmann/Rühland Patronage.

She performs on a cello made by Joseph Hill in ca. 1780, and is represented in Australia and New Zealand by Elaine Armstrong at Emblem Artists.