Thursday 7 January
Port Phillip Estate, 263 Red Hill Rd, Red Hill South
5.30pm arrival
5.45pm 60minute recital
6.45pm post recital dinner
Port Phillip Estate
$190 three course menu including sides + beverage on consumption.
TICKETS FOR THIS CONCERT CAN BE PURCHASED HERE
A solo cello takes centre stage at Port Phillip Estate as Charlotte Miles presents a recital exploring the instrument’s remarkable range. The Melbourne-born musician was the first Australian student at Germany’s prestigious Kronberg Academy and has performed with orchestras and chamber ensembles across Australia and Europe. Her program features the iconic Suite in E-flat major by Bach, alongside Ligeti’s Sonata, an incredible new work by Dr Lou Bennett: kalkii’. Charlotte is an artist not to be missed in one of the Peninsula’s striking settings.
PROGRAM
Ligeti: Sonata for solo cello
Dr Lou Bennett: kalkii’ for solo cello
J.S. Bach: Suite IV in E-flat major
H. Bottermund: Variations on a Theme of Paganini for solo cello
ARTIST
Cello - Charlotte Miles
The first Australian student at Germany's prestigious Kronberg Academy, where she studies with Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt and where she was recently awarded the 2025 Altkönig-Stift Prize, Melbourne-born cellist Charlotte Miles captivates with her “keen musical intelligence, assured technique and honeyed tone” (Sydney Morning Herald). Awarded over 100 Australian and international prizes, including at the 2024 ARD (DE), 2018 Gisborne (NZ) and 2020 Anna Kull (AT) competitions, she has appeared as a soloist with the Munich Chamber Orchestra, Kremerata Baltica, 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, in 2021 Miles won both the Concerto Competition and the Most Outstanding Recital Performance Prize at ANAM, and in 2019 she won the Australian National Young Virtuoso Award and was named the 3MBS Young Performer of the Year. A passionate chamber musician, recent highlights include the Landshut (DE), Oxford May (UK), Stamford (UK) and Haute-Provence (FR) festivals, the Australian Festival of Chamber Music (AU) and the Cello Biënnale Amsterdam (NL). A member of Gautier Capuçon’s cello ensemble, the ‘Capucelli’, Miles is a frequent guest musician with the Australian and Mahler Chamber Orchestras, the Australian String Quartet, the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, and the Berlin Philharmonic. She performs on a cello made by Joseph Hill in ca. 1780.
Thursday 7 January
Port Phillip Estate, 263 Red Hill Rd, Red Hill South
5.30pm arrival
5.45pm 60minute recital
6.45pm post recital dinner
Port Phillip Estate
$190 three course menu including sides + beverage on consumption.
TICKETS FOR THIS CONCERT CAN BE PURCHASED HERE
A solo cello takes centre stage at Port Phillip Estate as Charlotte Miles presents a recital exploring the instrument’s remarkable range. The Melbourne-born musician was the first Australian student at Germany’s prestigious Kronberg Academy and has performed with orchestras and chamber ensembles across Australia and Europe. Her program features the iconic Suite in E-flat major by Bach, alongside Ligeti’s Sonata, an incredible new work by Dr Lou Bennett: kalkii’. Charlotte is an artist not to be missed in one of the Peninsula’s striking settings.
PROGRAM
Ligeti: Sonata for solo cello
Dr Lou Bennett: kalkii’ for solo cello
J.S. Bach: Suite IV in E-flat major
H. Bottermund: Variations on a Theme of Paganini for solo cello
ARTIST
Cello - Charlotte Miles
The first Australian student at Germany's prestigious Kronberg Academy, where she studies with Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt and where she was recently awarded the 2025 Altkönig-Stift Prize, Melbourne-born cellist Charlotte Miles captivates with her “keen musical intelligence, assured technique and honeyed tone” (Sydney Morning Herald). Awarded over 100 Australian and international prizes, including at the 2024 ARD (DE), 2018 Gisborne (NZ) and 2020 Anna Kull (AT) competitions, she has appeared as a soloist with the Munich Chamber Orchestra, Kremerata Baltica, 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, in 2021 Miles won both the Concerto Competition and the Most Outstanding Recital Performance Prize at ANAM, and in 2019 she won the Australian National Young Virtuoso Award and was named the 3MBS Young Performer of the Year. A passionate chamber musician, recent highlights include the Landshut (DE), Oxford May (UK), Stamford (UK) and Haute-Provence (FR) festivals, the Australian Festival of Chamber Music (AU) and the Cello Biënnale Amsterdam (NL). A member of Gautier Capuçon’s cello ensemble, the ‘Capucelli’, Miles is a frequent guest musician with the Australian and Mahler Chamber Orchestras, the Australian String Quartet, the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, and the Berlin Philharmonic. She performs on a cello made by Joseph Hill in ca. 1780.
