KLEIN INTERNATIONAL String Competition 2025 Winner

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2025 Klein Competition Winner Miles Reed makes his 19th Century French Cello sing for you!

     A 2025 Irving M. Klein International String Competition laureate and first prize winner of the Cleveland Cello Society Scholarship Competition and the Oberlin Conservatory Bach Competition, Miles Reed is a cellist of remarkable creativity and passion. Particularly invested in representing living composers, Miles has premiered new works in various ensembles including the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble, Oberlin Orchestra, Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble, Reed Trio, and many others. In the fall of 2024, he premiered Katya Mueller’s Cello Concerto with the Oberlin Sinfonietta.

     Miles has collaborated personally with many of the preeminent composers of our time, including Christopher Theofanidis, Missy Mazzoli, Amy Williams, Steve Mackey, Alex Paxton, and Jesse Jones. An aspiring composer himself, Miles also recently enjoyed the world premiere of his wind duet entitled Micro Variations, interpreted by clarinetist Juan Pedro Espinosa Monteros and bassoonist Heather Hippchen. Recent highlights in Miles’ performance career include the American premiere of two works by Alex Paxton at the Bang on a Can Long Play Festival in Brooklyn, and his performance as soloist in Shulamit Ran’s Lyre of Orpheus with the Oberlin Sinfonietta. Miles has accepted a three-year fellowship with the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble in Aspen, Colorado, under the direction of Tim Weiss. He has participated in masterclasses with Steven Isserlis, Joel Krosnick, Astrid Schween, Gwen Krosnick, Bruce Coppock, and many other legendary pedagogues of our time.

     Miles earned a double degree in Cello Performance and Economics at Oberlin College with a Conservatory Dean’s Scholarship under the instruction of Dmitry Kouzov. In the fall of 2025, Miles will attend the University of Southern California to earn his master's degree in Music Performance, studying with Ralph Kirshbaum. Miles plays on a 19th century French cello by E. Simoutre et Fils, generously on loan from the Virtu Foundation.

     In this performance, Miles will be accompanied by stellar pianist Amy Zanrosso. Amy’s playing has been hailed as expressive, magnetic and masterful.  Thanks to her attentive Italian immigrant mom, piano lessons started at the age of 6 and by the age of 15, Amy had made the decision to make music her life. As a soloist, she has appeared with the Santa Rosa Symphony, the Symphony of the Kootenays, the Russian Chamber Orchestra, Contra Costa Chamber Orchestra, the Symphony of the Redwoods and the Kensington Symphony Orchestra. Her love of chamber music has led her to more fully admire her favorite composers while sharing the experience with countless inspiring musicians and appreciative audiences.

     Amy is a faculty member and chamber music coach at the Pre-College Academy of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music as well as at the Nueva School in Hillsborough, CA. She is constantly fueled by her fantastically inspiring students and enjoys forcing her favorite composers on them as well as telling them what to do. Many thanks to Beethoven and Brahms for inspiring her to come this far – she wouldn’t change a thing.