Humble beginnings….Jun 9, 2011 (7yrs old)

First Recital….Aug 6, 2011 (7yrs old)

First Place for Practice Hours! 2012 season.

First “Rock and Roll” Experience….Mar 29, 2013

First “sit-in” at a Piano Bar (Californo’s)….Jan 10, 2014 (10 yrs old)

First Heartland Chamber Junior Music Festival – Piano Trio – Yardley Hall, JCCC. July 31, 2014

First Piano – Yamaha Baby Grand….Feb 12, 2015

First Piano Scholarship prize at Age 11 at Olathe’s got Talent….April 11, 2015

First Recital at Schmitt Music, Kansas City. May 27, 2015

First Jazz-Rock “Guest” appearance with Dad’s Fusion band. Jun 13, 2015 (11 yrs old)

Second Heartland Chamber Junior Music Festival – Piano Trio – Yardley Hall, JCCC. Jul 30, 2015

First Summer at the 3-week Indiana University Piano Academy – 2016 IUPA.

First KCMTA Fall Festival. Earned Highest Honors with Special Merit. Oct 15, 2016

Second Summer at the 3-week Indiana University Piano Academy – IUPA 2017. Student Recital – Piano Duet. Jul 14, 2017

Pianist Miles Swaminathan – Solo Debut. Age 14. Sunday, Feb 11, 2018

New Home, New Piano. Yamaha GC2. Jun 7, 2018

Third Summer at the 3-week Indiana University Piano Academy – IUPA 2018. Pictured with Dr. Karen Taylor. Jul 14, 2018

Solo Public Recital – A Tribute to Mark Ball (the “late” Organist and Music Director) – Feb 10, 2019

Second Solo Public Recital for 2019. Schmitt Music, Overland Park, KS. Mar 2, 2019

First Paid Gig at Age 15. Engaged by The Kauffman Center for The Performing Arts – Helzberg Hall – For the Future Stages Festival. Jul 16, 2019

Fourth consecutive and final Summer at the 3-week Indiana University Piano Academy – IUPA 2019. Honors Recital. Jul 13, 2019

First MTNA win – Kansas State – Senior Piano Competition. Oct 26, 2019

First Organ. Nord C2D. Nov 27, 2019

First Place and Special Prize for Artistry and Technique – Ovation Young Artist piano Competition. Dec 1, 2019

First Live Broadcast. Kansas Public Radio, Lawrence, KS. Jan 6, 2020

Piano Winner at 2020 Midwest Chamber Ensemble Concerto Competition. With Teacher and Accompanist, Dr. Robert Weirich. Mar 1, 2020

First Live Streaming Recital – during the Pandemic. Jun 20, 2020.

First Year – Curtis Institute of Music Young Artist Summer Program – Participant Recital 2. Aug 7 2020

Second MTNA Win – Kansas State – Senior Piano Competition. Nov 2, 2020

First performance with The Midwest Chamber Ensemble, conducted by Steve Lewis. Sep 26, 2021

First (and only) Classic Rock Live Performance. Oct 2 2021

First Live performance with a new Fusion Trio – featuring Ram Swaminathan (Drums) and Ricky Anderson (Bass). Oct 2, 2021

First Live performance with Vocal Jazz Group – A Touch of Class. Oct 2, 2021

Park University – International Center for Music – Live Recording Session on a Hamburg Steinway, for Under Graduate College Auditions. Oct 24, 2021

First performance for The Kansas City Musical Club. Nov 1, 2021

First Recital at The New Steinway Gallery in Lenexa, Kansas. Nov 14, 2021

Pit Orchestra Pianist for 9 to 5: The Musical. Nov 17, 2021

Second Broadcast (post-Pandemic) from Kansas Public Radio, Lawrence, KS. Feb 10, 2022

Performing the Third Movement from Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3, with Dr. Robert Weirich (accompanist) at The Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts. March 5, 2022

Received The Alice Adele Freese Scholarship from The Hutton Honors College Scholarship Committee at Indiana University Bloomington. Mar 10, 2022

Offer Letter from Indiana University Jacobs School of Music!!! Apr 2, 2022

Pianist for the Kansas State Award Luncheon and City, State, and Regional Division Winner of the DAR Good Citizen Contest! Apr 30, 2022

Performed for the guests at Olathe Northwest High School prior to the Raven Pops 2022 Event. May 14, 2022

Ready for Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, Bloomington! High School Graduation! May 22, 2022

Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, Bloomington. New Student Orientation! Jun 9, 2022

“Farewell For Now” concert at Kansas Public Radio, Live. Lawrence, KS. Jul 19, 2022.

Charlotte House Series – “Intimate Impressions” – Miles Swaminathan, Piano. Jul 23, 2022.

Farewell Performance. Jazz Trio with Ram Swaminathan (Drums) and Ricky Anderson (Bass). Aug 6, 2022.

Indiana University. Aug 11, 2022.

Indiana University. Ford-Crawford Hall. Nov 12, 2022.

With friends and fellow IU Music students, Izzy, Felicity, Aidan and Patrick at the Indianapolis Matinee Musical (IMM) Collegiate Competition weekend, February 3rd – February 4th, 2023. Miles was the winner of the Undergraduate Piano competition.

Indiana University. Recital Hall. Mar 5, 2023.

Bartok Concerto Piano No. 2 Competition with accompanist Ubeeng Kueq. Indiana University. Auer Hall. Mar 29, 2023.

With Cordelia Brown, Kansas Public Radio, Lawrence, Jun 8, 2023.

Charlotte House Series Concert at The Steinway Gallery of Kansas City, Lenexa, KS, Jun 10, 2023.

Olathe Noon Optimist Performance, Olathe, KS, Jun 11, 2023.

Borromeo Music Festival, Altdorf UR, Switzerland. Solo Recital. Jul 21, 2023.

Borromeo Music Festival, Altdorf UR, Switzerland. Cello Duet with Cody Davis. Jul 23, 2023.

Borromeo Music Festival, Altdorf UR, Switzerland. Bloch Piano Quintet No. 1 chamber group featuring Miles Swaminathan on Piano, with Fiora Yeung (Violin 1), Sofia Janssen (Violin 2), Allison Keller (Viola), and Noah Sendir (Cello). Jul 28, 2023.

Borromeo Music Festival, Altdorf UR, Switzerland, with Prof. Jean-Louis Haguenauer. Jul 28, 2023.

Borromeo Music Festival, Altdorf UR, Switzerland. Fauré Piano Quintet No. 2 chamber group featuring Miles Swaminathan on Piano, with Chae Eun Bae (Violin 1), Fiora Yeung (Violin 2), Solomon Leonard (Viola), and Shayne Baldwin (Cello). Jul 29, 2023.

Borromeo Music Festival, Altdorf UR, Switzerland with Festival Artistic Directors Dr. Ming Tsu and Dr. Lorenz Gamma. Jul 29, 2023.

With Euphonium player, Ethan Yeaste, student of Demondrae Thurman. – IU JSOM Octubafest ’23. Oct 30, 2023.

Students of Prof. Jean-Louis Haguenauer – Nov 10, 2023 Studio Recital. “An Evening with Maurice Ohana and his World.”

Miles’ first Piano Trio composition premiere – “What Lay Beyond the Dark and Desolate Lands” – Dec 4, 2023, with Anna Cain (Violin), and Freeman Moser (Cello)

Miles – winner of the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music’s Florence Price Piano Concerto Competition – Jan 30, 2024. With Michelle A. Cann, pianist and Curtis Institute of Music’s Eleanor Sokoloff Chair in Piano Studies.

Performing the Florence Price Piano Concerto in D Minor with the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music’s University Orchestra, under the baton of Maestro Thomas Wilkins – Feb 21, 2024.

Miles – with Maestro Thomas Wilkins – Feb 21, 2024.

Student Recital – Mar 3, 2024.

Miles – Finalist – Adult Original Composition Category of the Music International Grand Prix – March 5, 2024.

Kansas Public Radio, Mar 12, 2024.

Winner at 2024 Artist Presentation Society Competition – Mar 16, 2024.