About
Twenty-year-old violist Jamie Miles is a third-year student at both the Australian National Academy of Music and the University of Melbourne (BMus), studying with Caroline Henbest. From 2022-2023, he was the principal violist of the flagship Australian Youth Orchestra, including for their National Tour in 2022, and Jamie has been the principal viola of the University of Melbourne Symphony Orchestra since his first year. In 2023, Jamie was the winner of the Melbourne Recital Centre (MRC) Bach Competition and was the only Australian competitor in the prestigious German Broadcasting Association (ARD) International Viola Competition in Munich. In 2024, he was a finalist in the MRC Great Romantics Competition, and in 2022, he claimed second prize in the 3MBS Victorian Young Performer of the Year Awards. Jamie has performed with the Sydney Symphony, Melbourne Symphony and Tasmanian Symphony Orchestras as part of ANAM’s side-by-side program.
As a keen composer, he has won several local competitions, including the Australian Guild of Music’s ‘UNLOCK’D’ contest, winning the Solo Instrument category. Jamie’s Suite for Solo Viola has recently been included in the Australian Music Examinations Board (AMEB) syllabus for the ‘Certificate of Performance’ level.
Jamie plays an 1899 Béla Szepessy viola, generously on loan from Thomas Chawner.
Australian Youth Orchestra
