Australian cellist Charlotte Miles has been selected as one of 15 international competitors to enter the first semi-final round of the 2025 Budapest International Cello Competition.

Open to cellists under the age of 30, this year’s competition runs across  8–14 September at the Liszt Academy and offers a prize pool of €40,000 (around AU$71,800).

Charlotte Miles. Photo © Alexandra Münch

Born in 2002, Miles has received over 100 Australian and international competition prizes across her musical career so far, including at the International ARD Cello Competition, the Gisborne International Music Competition and the ‘Anna Kull’ International Cello Competition, among others.

She is an alumnus of the Australian National Academy of Music, the University of Melbourne and the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar, and is the first Australian student to be admitted to Germany’s Kronberg Academy.

Currently a substitute performer with the Berlin Philharmonic, she has performed as a soloist with the Munich Chamber Orchestra, the ACO Collective and the Bendigo and ANAM symphony orchestras.

Other notable performances include appearances at the Cello Biënnale Amsterdam, Rencontres Musicales de Haute-Provence and the Australian Festival of Chamber Music, with the Australian String Quartet and the...