by Miles Walter (2022)
Aspen Chamber Symphony (majority student orchestra; some faculty alongside), Nicholas McGegan, conductor
World premiere, rec. live July 8, 2022
Commissioned by Aspen Music Festival and School, Robert Spano, Music Director

This is the first movement of an incomplete, two-movement symphony.

I might never write anything that sounds like this again... but it was a joy to write, and I somehow feel that the way the architecture unites in the latter half of the movement justifies the borrowings and anachronisms of the whole...

[Walter] Symphony (2022), I. Broad, in flexible tempo

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Upcoming:

-Orchestra work for London Symphony Orchestra (3', 25/26 Panufnik Scheme Composer)
-Residency with Unsuk Chin, Festival d'Aix-en-Provence (summer 2025)
-Piano quartet commissioned by Classeek, premiere Switzerland, May 2025
-Orchestra work commissioned by Orpheus Sinfonia (UK), 10', premiere June 2025, London

SHORT BIO (2025)

American composer and pianist Miles Walter’s Fantasy for piano solo (2024), a three-movement, 25-minute work commissioned by the Venice Biennale for Bertrand Chamayou, was recently hailed as “evoking the young Messiaen” (Classica) and as “one of the most refreshing piano compositions one has heard in recent times…. Don't forget this name” (Scherzo). Miles’s music has been commissioned and performed by ensembles including the London Symphony Orchestra, Orpheus Sinfonia (UK), Aspen Chamber Symphony, Classeek, Argento Ensemble, Lontano Ensemble, New York Virtuoso Singers, Merz Trio, Linos Trio, and Yale Percussion Group, has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and RAI Radio 3, and has received recognition from BMI, Classeek, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. As a pianist, Miles performs fluently and joyfully in numerous styles in and out of the concert hall with many esteemed collaborators. Festival and masterclass credits include Aspen, Norfolk, Bowdoin, the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, and Prussia Cove. Twice graduated from Yale (BA, MM), Miles also holds a piano degree from the Musik-Akademie Basel where he studied with Claudio Martínez Mehner, and is presently pursuing doctoral studies with Sir George Benjamin.