Miles Swaminathan - 2024 Award Winner 

Kansas City pianist Miles Swaminathan won his first piano scholarship at the age of 11. Since that time, he has performed in numerous chamber music festivals and summer programs.

Currently a junior, Swaminathan is pursuing a Bachelor of Music Degree in piano performance at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, studying with Professor Jean-Louis Haguenauer and working on a minor in composition. At Jacobs, he has premiered instrumental works and has performed in several solo, chamber and large ensemble settings. In January 2023, Swaminathan was chosen to perform Debussy preludes in the French Art Song “Mélodie” interdisciplinary workshop series led by world-renowned French Baritone François Le Roux, as well as in the series’ final concert at Auer Hall the following month.

In July 2023, he attended the Borromeo Music Festival in Altdorf, Switzerland, where he performed in a master class taught by Angela Cheng, a solo recital, a duet with a cellist and a chamber group. In December 2023, he premiered his first piano trio original composition “What Lay Beyond the Dark and Desolate Lands” for violin, cello and piano.

Swaminathan began 2024 as the winner of the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music’s Florence Price Piano Concerto Competition. He performed this concerto with the Jacobs School of Music University Orchestra under the baton of Maestro Thomas Wilkins on February 21, 2024, at the Musical Arts Center. A third-place winner for the Adult Original Composition category of the 2024 Music International Grand Prix held in New York City, N.Y., Swaminathan participated in the Fall 2024 IES Abroad Vienna Music program, where he studied with Austrian classical pianist, Professor of Piano Christopher Hinterhuber, at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. As the current winner of the 2024 Artist Presentation Society competition for Piano, Swaminathan will be performing a solo recital in St. Louis in February 2025, in addition to a sixth appearance at Kansas Public Radio in early January 2025.

Visit pianomiles.com to learn more about Swaminathan and his upcoming performances.