Welcome Back!

Our 2021 season gets off to a blazing start with a dramatic brass fanfare from Paul  Dukas’ ballet La Peri followed by the rousing overture to Verdi’s Nabucco. We are thrilled to welcome back popular young cellist  Charlotte Miles who will play Elgar’s popular Cello Concerto. The opening of Beethoven’s 5th Symphony is one of the best known tunes in classical music, and the concert concludes with this belated tribute to Beethoven’s 250th birthday.

Soloist:  Charlotte Miles, Cello

Born in 2002, Melbourne-based cellist Charlotte Miles is currently completing her third year of training with Howard Penny at the Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM), in addition to her second-year Bachelor of Music (BMus) studies at the University of Melbourne.

In recent years, Charlotte has performed in Los Angeles, New York, London and Zurich, and throughout Germany, China, France, the Netherlands, Australia and New Zealand (including extensive performances with the Australian Youth Orchestra). Charlotte has benefitted from masterclasses with cellists including Wolfgang Emmanuel Schmidt, Maria Kliegel, David Geringas and Alban Gerhardt, in addition to performing alongside world-leading cellists such as Mischa Maisky, Truls Mørk, Sol Gabetta and Giovanni Sollima in a 100-cello ensemble at the 2016 Piatigorsky International Cello Festival in Los Angeles.

Awarded over 100 competition prizes, Charlotte has performed at Carnegie Hall (New York) and Opera Bastille (Paris) in prize-winner concerts for international competitions, and has been a major prize-winner at the 2018 Gisborne (NZ) International Music Competition, and the 2020 “Anna Kull” International Cello Competition in Graz (Austria). In 2019, Charlotte was the 3MBS Young Performer of the Year and winner of the National Young Virtuoso Award. Charlotte has performed on 3MBS, 4MBS, 5MBS and ABC Classic radio stations, and has been featured on The Violin Channel.

Conductor: Willem van der Vis