Charlotte Miles - Cello

Some fairly intense shots from the first round of the Akademia Muzyczna im. Krzysztofa Pendereckiego w Krakowie Penderecki International Cello Competition, where I’m honoured to be performing Penderecki, Schumann, Ginastera and Tchaikovsky in the semi-finals tomorrow at 17:30 CET (livestream available here: https://pendereckicello.amuz.krakow.pl/?page_id=791&lang=en #1-12)! 🇵🇱🎵

📷 Piotr Markowski

Fellow cheeky cello Oliwia Meiser and I are heading to Poland at the end of this month for the Penderecki International Cello Competition, and we thought we’d give things an airing at 12:00 in Notenbank on November 17th - if you’re in Weimar, we’d love to see you there! 🙊🇵🇱🎻

Settling in for my second semester here in now-autumnal Weimar! Incredibly grateful for the support of the Australian Music Foundation, The Ian Potter Cultural Trust, The University of Melbourne and the Musical Society of Victoria, whose scholarships and awards have made all this possible. Bring on round 2! 🍂🎶

Saying goodbye to the most incredible two weeks in regional QLD and NSW with ACO Collective - a fortnight of sun, sand and stunning shows with the loveliest team imaginable. 🩵🏝️

Over the moon to be back in Sydney with the gorgeous ACO Collective this week, performing works by Bartók, Stravinsky and Purcell (among others) with the inimitable Matthew Truscott, before we hit the road for a fabulous tour of regional NSW and QLD. If you’re in Sydney for our first show at Pier 2/3 this Thursday, tickets are available at https://www.aco.com.au/buy-tickets?dl=526d09c3-d15c-4915-a583-84265a8b8eea%7Cc02c672c-f4ff-4bd1-9e6b-9efe555a323d%7C. I’d love to see you there! 🎟️

Reflecting on an unforgettable ten days at the Australian Festival of Chamber Music with colleagues who made me feel like the luckiest girl in the world. ♥️

A lovely chat live on air this morning at ABC North Queensland with Michael Clarke about all things AFCM (Australian Festival of Chamber Music) and all things cello - have a listen below, from 1:16:16 to 1:25:00! 📡

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Celebrating a fabulous first semester with this lovely bunch! ♥️🐺

Honoured to be an Australian Festival of Chamber Music Festival Artist this July-August. Bring on the Townsville sunshine! 💛

⭐𝐀𝐅𝐂𝐌 𝐀𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭⭐ Welcome Melbourne-born cellist Charlotte Miles - Cello to AFCM 2023! Charlotte was the winner of both the 2021 ANAM Concerto Competition and the 2021 ANAM Best Recital Performance Prize!

Charlotte is a current postgraduate student of Prof. Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt at the Hochschule für Musik “Franz Liszt” in Weimar, and a recent graduate of the The University of Melbourne and the Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) where she studied with Howard Penny.

Benefitting from masterclasses with cellists including Jean-Guihen Queyras, Clemens Hagen and Alban Gerhardt, Charlotte has been awarded over 100 competition prizes, including at the 2020 Anna Kull and 2018 Gisborne competitions, and has appeared as a soloist at the Sanguine Estate, Bendigo and Vasse Felix Festivals, and on Australian Digital Concert Hall.

In 2019, Charlotte was the 3MBS Young Performer of the Year and National Young Virtuoso. In 2022, she was the Emerging Artist on cello with the Australian Chamber Orchestra and now performs nationally with both ACO Collective and the ACO.

See Charlotte live at AFCM in Townsville this winter - https://bit.ly/3VSlm46

𝐀𝐅𝐂𝐌 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬
🎵Friday 28 July - James Cook University Opening Night -Opening Applause
🎵Saturday 29 July - Governor's Gala Romance Isn't Dead, Yet....
🎵Sunday 30 July - AFCM Illuminates II
🎵Sunday 30 July - AFCM Special Event: Sensational Sunday
🎵Monday 31 July - Concert Conversations 2
🎵Monday 31 July - Evening Concert - Journeys with Shostakovich
🎵Wednesday 2 August 2023 - Concert Conversations 3
🎵Wednesday 2 August - Ray Golding Sunset Series 3 - Baroque Tonic
🎵Wednesday 2 August - Evening Concert - To the Mysterious Forest
🎵Thursday 3 August - Evening Concert - Baroque Soiree
🎵Friday 4 August - Concert Conversations 5
🎵Friday 4 August - Ray Golding Sunset Series 5 - Night and Day
🎵Friday 4 August - Evening Concert - Castigated Classics
🎵Saturday 5 August - Concert Conversations 6
🎵Saturday 5 August - Festival Coda

𝐶ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑙𝑜𝑡𝑡𝑒 𝑀𝑖𝑙𝑒𝑠 𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑣𝑎𝑖𝑙𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑠𝑢𝑝𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑦 𝑎𝑛 𝐴𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑠𝑡 𝐴𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑙

A very happy belated birthday to Sergei Prokofiev, whose mighty, meaty and downright magnificent Sinfonia Concertante Seonggeun Kim and I had the privilege of rehearsing with the Thüringen Philharmonie Gotha-Eisenach this afternoon. 🤍

Day 1 down, 2 years to go - unlike The Bachelor, everyone gets a rose! 🌹

Die anwesenden "Erstis" im Gruppenbild vor der Saalorgel.

Action shot from the first regional leg of our MCO quartet tour in Wangaratta earlier today - next stop Mount Beauty tonight, then Swifts Creek and Bairnsdale tomorrow, Sale on Sunday and Castlemaine next week! 🥵

Preparations are well underway for our Melbourne Chamber Orchestra Inspirations quartet tour this month, and Sophie, Karla, Merewyn and I are so excited to bring a beautiful program of Haydn, Shaw and Beethoven to some of the most gorgeous places in Victoria. First show in Melbourne this Sunday at The Edge and also live on Australian Digital Concert Hall, before we take this show on the road!
Tickets at https://mco.org.au/event/inspirations/ 💙

Meet our quartet for 2023’s first chamber series concert, “Inspirations”!
Artistic Director Sophie Rowell (violin) leads Karla Hanna (violin), Merewyn Bramble (viola) and Charlotte Miles (cello) for quartets of Haydn, Caroline Shaw & Beethoven.
Concerts start this Sunday 19/3 Fed Square Australian Digital Concert Hall.
On tour 24–31 March Castlemaine State Festival

Discover & book now: https://mco.org.au/event/inspirations/

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Thinking today, and every day, about all the fearless and fabulous women I’m so grateful to call my mentors, colleagues and friends. 💕

to Tchaikovsky this time last year, joined by the beautiful players and people of the Corpus Medicorum orchestra at the 10th 3MBS Melbourne 103.5FM marathon! Still so grateful to everyone who worked tirelessly to make this possible. ♥️

Having such great fun playing works by Bruch, Bacewicz, Mendelssohn, Martin and Sdraulig on an east-coast Australian Chamber Orchestra tour with the phenomenal Ilya Gringolts this month. Catch us if you can in Melbourne (last show tonight), Sydney, Brisbane or Canberra! 🏃‍♂️🎶

📷 Julian Kingma

Over the moon to announce that from April 1 I’ll be a Masters student of Prof. Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt at the Hochschule für Musik ‘Franz Liszt’ in Weimar!!
So incredibly grateful to everyone who has made this happen (especially the extraordinary Howard Penny) and just a bit excited for this new chapter.
T-minus 10 weeks until the move… ✈️🇩🇪

The last 30 seconds of Rococo to conclude the final class concert of Prof. Schmidt’s Berlin course last night. Such fun to get to know other young cellists from around the world and to learn so much from each other! 🎶

An incredible day spent in Berlin today - a third day of masterclasses with Prof. Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt followed by an utterly extraordinary performance of the Schumann piano concerto and Brahms’ 2nd symphony by Argerich, Barenboim and the Berliner Philharmoniker which was a privilege to experience. So lucky, and so grateful. ❤️‍🔥

Postcards from three perfect days on the Margaret River coast last weekend for the ACO Collective festival at Vasse Felix! So grateful for the incredible music, the beautiful people, and an utterly stunning part of the world. 💙🍇

Outrageously excited for our next ACO Collective project in Sydney; a little preview before we head to Margaret River. Would love to see you there! 🤎

Had a fun and fabulous time last week in Brisbane spent rehearsing and performing Schumann, Mozart and Stanhope piano quartets at the Australian Youth Orchestra Chamber Players program - a huge thank you to everyone who continues to make these opportunities possible. 🧡🎶

Memorable moments from our ACO Collective education workshops in Albany and Margaret River earlier this week, bouncing musical joy off each another! ☺️

Some pretty intense action shots from our first ACO Collective show at Pier 2/3 on Saturday night - since then, we’ve loved every moment in Karratha and Perth, and now we’re off to Margaret River! 🚎🧡

📷: Maria Boyadgis

An utter joy to share the stage with these legends last night for an electric first show of our ACO Collective tour. Off to WA tomorrow! ⚡️

It’s TONIGHT! Can’t wait to let loose performing Sofia Gubaidulina’s mystical, powerful and occasionally confronting Seven Words concerto with the incredible James Crabb and the Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) string orchestra - hardcore moments ahead 🤘🏻💥

Less than two weeks to go until Elgar with the wonderful Corpus Medicorum at Melbourne Recital Centre on August 7 at 5pm! Tickets available via the link below, hope to see you there ♥️

https://www.melbournerecital.com.au/events/2022/corpus-medicorum-concert-3/

What a joy it was to tour Berlioz and Strauss to Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane with Sir Mark Elder and the mighty this month! So grateful for everyone who made the tour possible, and everyone who came to support it. ♥️

Action shot from last night in Merimbula on our incredible Australian Youth Orchestra Momentum Ensemble VIC, NSW and TAS regional tour - so grateful to everyone who has made this happen, and to be making music for such beautiful regional audiences again 💜

A very special backstage moment at Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Jams for Juniors this morning 💚

Having too much fun rehearsing Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations with conductor Luke Severn and the Bendigo Symphony Orchestra ahead of our concert on Sunday afternoon! Tickets and details available via the link below, hope to see you there! 🎵♥️

https://www.bendigoregion.com.au/arts-culture-theatres/event/bendigo-symphony-orchestra-frozen-springs

from Leanne McGowan Violin

Can’t wait to keep working with the beautiful Quartet Estelle when the isolation period is over! ✨

Music education matters, says Charlotte Miles, cello

https://www.cutcommonmag.com/music-education-matters-says-charlotte-miles-cello/

“At the beating heart of all music-making, from its primordial origins to its contemporary culture, is the fundamental act of unity.”

Thank you so much to Stephanie Estlake and the team at CutCommon for having a chat about why music-making is so vital for me and for everyone. Link in bio.
Photo credit: Pia Johnson

cutcommonmag.com BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Music education matters. Whether you first picked up an instrument at school, you’re working full-time in an orchestra, or you’re just entering your industry training, it’s like…

Missing this so much!!
Australian Youth Orchestra celli with Daniel Müller-Schott, July 2019