“Some people wish above all to conform to the rules, I wish only to render what I can hear. There is no theory. You merely have to listen. Pleasure is the law.”

Claude Debussy

Miles, 22, a senior at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, Bloomington, working towards his Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance and a minor in Composition, is the 2026 First-Place winner of the inaugural International Pianist-Composer Competition hosted by World Piano Teacher’s Association – Canada, for his solo piano composition– “A Night at the Observatory“ This award-winning composition was also the first-placewinner for the Tonal Category of the 18th Online International Fidelio Piano Composition Competition 2025 amongst 96 participating works from 21 countries. Miles kicked off 2026 with his seventh live broadcast at Kansas Public Radio. Since returning from his semester in Vienna, Austria, during Fall of 2024, Miles was the 2025 recipient of Indiana University Jacobs School of Music Performer’s Certificate, which is awarded as a special recognition of musical understanding and technical proficiency in recital. The 2024 Piano winner of the Artist Presentation Society competition and the IU JSoM Florence Price Piano Concerto competition, Miles is a recipient of both the IU Hutton Honors Scholarship and the Premier Young Artist Award.