Miles Massicotte
Pianist Miles Massicotte has been hailed as a “truly extraordinary artist” showing a “dazzling display of pianistic prowess”. (The News-Times). Currently an Assistant Professor of Piano and Director of Keyboard Studies at Virginia State University, he enjoys a diverse musical career that has taken him across the United States and abroad, where he has been featured variously as a recitalist, a soloist with orchestras, a chamber musician, as well as a composer and improviser. Most recently he performed as a concerto soloist with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra in Pernik, Bulgaria and presented at the World Piano Conference in Novi Sad, Serbia.
Miles has performed actively in NYC as a solo recitalist, chamber musician, and performer of contemporary music at prominent venues such as Carnegie Hall, DiMenna Center, Roulette, National Sawdust, the Tenri Cultural Institute, and Le Poisson Rouge. He has been a featured guest artist at the New Music for Strings Festival, Queens New Music Festival, Silicon Valley Music Festival, Pine Mountain Music Festival, Tryon Concert Association, and the European Month of Culture (Bulgarian Embassy - Washington D.C).
In 2018, Dr. Massicotte was awarded the Ackerman Excellence Award at Stony Brook University. He was the winner of the 2015 Stony Brook Concerto Competition, performing Rachmaninoff's Concerto No.3 with the Stony Brook Symphony Orchestra in November 2017. Internationally, he was a first prize winner in the Musical Fireworks in Baden-Wurttemberg International Music Competition in Germany in 2017.