Pianist Miles Massicotte has been hailed as a “truly extraordinary artist” showing a “dazzling display of pianistic prowess” (The News-Times). Born in 1990, he began studying piano at the age of 10, and gave his first public performances shortly thereafter. He enjoys a diverse musical career that began in his native Connecticut and 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.

Miles has performed actively as a solo recitalist, chamber musician, and performer of contemporary music at prominent venues across the country such as the DiMenna Center, Roulette, National Sawdust, Carnegie Hall, the Tenri Cultural Institute, and Le Poisson Rouge. Recent performances include at the 2023 World Piano Conference (Novi Sad, Serbia), and with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra in Bulgaria. He has given additional solo performances internationally in the Czech Republic, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and Germany.

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, and performed 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 2017.

Miles completed his Bachelor of Music degree at Western Connecticut State University, where he studied with Russell Hirshfield. Miles received his Master of Music and Doctorate of Musical Arts from Stony Brook University, under the tutelage of Gilbert Kalish. Currently an Assistant Professor of Piano and Director of Keyboard Studies at Virginia State University, he was previously an Assistant Professor of Piano at Eastern New Mexico University and the University of the Virgin Islands, and has worked at Hofstra University and Suffolk County Community College.