Miles Friday

Born in Seattle, WA., Miles Jefferson Friday is currently pursuing an MA in composition at the Eastman School of Music where he studies primarily with Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon and Oliver Schneller. Miles has won numerous awards and honors including the ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award, the Kuttner String Quartet Composition Competition, a Hutton Honors College Creative Grant, the Robert Avalon Young Composer Competition, and the Dallas Festival of Modern Music Emerging Composer Award. Miles also holds graduate teaching positions at the Eastman School of Music as the instructor for “Notation & Calligraphy” and “the Basics of Orchestration”, is a staff member and lab instructor the Eastman Audio Research Studios (EARS), and teaches a comprehensive summer music course in the University of Rochester Pre-College Division. Miles holds a BM in Music Composition from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, and has spent additional time studying at IRCAM as part of their manifeste academie.