Jamie Miles : Associate Artist
Jamie Miles (b. 2005) is a Melbourne-based violist and composer.
He is a recent graduate of the Australian National Academy of
Music (ANAM), where he studied viola with Caroline Henbest. As of
January 2026, he is completing the final subjects of his Bachelor
of Music (B.Mus.) at the University of Melbourne. In 2026, he is
an academist with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and will also
appear as guest tutti viola with the Australian Chamber Orchestra
on their July-August national tour. Jamie was one of four
participants selected from over 150 national applications for the
composition program at the Australian Youth Orchestra's 2026
National Music Camp.
Jamie began pursuing composition more seriously in early 2025,
following several years of writing sporadically alongside his
performance training. Since then, he has completed and premiered
three works: Viola Octet (The Commuter's Fantasie), Elegy for
Strings, and Poem for Chamber Orchestra. The Octet and Elegy were
premiered at ANAM, and Poem at AYO National Music Camp. The
Commuter's Fantasie received a Gold Award at the 2025 Johannes
Brahms International Online Music Competition. Earlier works for
solo viola have also received national recognition: Caprice for
Solo Viola (2020) was awarded first prize in the Australian Guild
of Music's UNLOCK'D composition competition, and Suite for Solo
Viola (2019) was recrntly included in the Australian Music
Examinations Board (AMEB) viola syllabus at Certificate of
Performance level.
As a violist, Jamie has performed extensively in orchestral,
chamber and solo contexts. He was principal viola of the
University of Melbourne Symphony Orchestra from 2023-2025 and of
the Australian Youth Orchestra from 2022-2025, including for
their 2025 International Tour. In 2023, he was selected as the
only Australian competitor in the ARD (German Broadcasting
Association) International Music Competition in Munich, one of 43
violists chosen from 153 international applicants. He has also
received prizes in several national competitions, including First
(Richard Mills) Prize at the 2023 Melbourne Recital Centre Bach
Competition, Second Prize at the 2022 3MBS Victorian Young
Performer of the Year Awards, and he was a finalist in the 2024
Melbourne Recital Centre Great Romantics Competition.
Biography provided by the composer