The Charlotte House Series is thrilled to welcome back Miles Swaminathan as a returning performer and to premiere two of his own pieces composed in just the last year. A National Merit Commended Scholar, Miles studied piano with Dr. Robert Weirich and Karen Kushner and is currently a sophomore at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana where he studies piano with Jean-Louis Haguenauer. Miles is a recipient of the IU Hutton Honors Scholarship and the Premier Young Artist Award, and is pursuing both a Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance and a minor in composition. The 2023 winner of the Indianapolis Matinee Musicale Collegiate Competition for Undergraduate Pianists, Miles is excited to return to Kansas Public Radio and the Charlotte House Series this June, and to attend the Borromeo Music Festival in Altdorf, Switzerland in July.

To learn more about Miles, please visit www.charlottemusic.org/milesswaminathan

PROGRAM

Sonata in A-Flat Major, Op. 26, “Funeral March” - Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)

Andante con variazioni

Scherzo: Allegro molto

Marcia funebre sulla morte d’un eroe

Allegro

Nocturne No. 5 in B-Flat Major, Op. 37 - Gabriel Fauré (1845 - 1924)

Sea Breeze - Miles Swaminathan (2004 - )

The Fields of Fallen Souls - Miles Swaminathan (2004 - )

*Kansas City premieres

Etudes, Book 2 - Claude Debussy (1862 - 1918)

VII. pour les degrés chromatiques (for the chromatic degrees)

VIII. pour les agréments (for the ornaments)

IX. pour les notes répétées (for the repeated notes)

X. pour les sonorités opposées (for the opposing sonorities)

XI. pour les arpèges composés (for the composite arpeggios)

XII. pour les accords (for the chords)