Open Application winner (composer), 2024-25

Quickly emerging as a leading young American composer, Miles’s works for orchestra, voice, chamber ensembles, and solo piano have been commissioned and performed in a growing number of countries around the world, including the U.S.A, the U.K, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, the Czech Republic, and Australia.

His Fantasy for piano solo (2024), a half-hour work commissioned by the Venice Biennale for Bertrand Chamayou, was recently praised as “one of the most refreshing piano compositions one has heard in recent times…. Don't forget this name” (Scherzo).

Miles's music has been commissioned and performed by groups including the London Symphony Orchestra, Orpheus Sinfonia, Linos Trio, Yale Percussion Group, and Aspen Chamber Symphony, and broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and RAI Radio 3. A versatile performer and devoted chamber musician, he is a present participant in OCM at IMS Prussia Cove, and has premiered over fifty new works.

Twice graduated from Yale (BA, MM), Miles holds a piano degree from the Musik-Akademie Basel under Claudio Martínez Mehner, and is currently pursuing his PhD with Sir George Benjamin. He joins us this season as our Ambassador Programme composer.