Miles Jefferson Friday

Composer

Miles Jefferson Friday is currently a doctoral candidate in music composition at Cornell University where he studies primarily with Marianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri and Kevin Ernste. Miles holds a MA in composition from the Eastman School of Music where he studied with Oliver Schneller and conducted his graduate research under Robert D. Morris. He also holds a BM from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music.

Miles has had his works presented at festivals such as the 11th International Young Composers Academy in Tchaikovsky-city, IRCAM’s ManiFeste Académie, the SinusTon Electronic Music Festival, the ilSUONO Contemporary Music Week, the Thailand New Music and Arts Symposium, the St. Petersburg International New Music Festival “reMusik.org”, the Grafenegg Ink Still Wet Festival, June in Buffalo, the Red Note New Music Festival, the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS) Conference, the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival (NYCEMF), the National Student Electronic Music Event (NSEME), the Splice Institute, the Music and Movement Conference at the University of Pittsburgh, precept.concept.percept., the Twisted Spruce Guitar and Composition Symposium, and others. Miles has won awards and honors including the ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award, the Twisted Spruce Symposium Composition Competition Prize, the Otto R. Stahl Memorial Award, the Wayne Brewster Barlow Prize, the Kuttner String Quartet Composition Competition, and the Robert Avalon Young Composer Competition. Miles has served as an instructor and graduate teaching assistant for courses on music composition, computer and electronic music, music theory, and music history (after 1945) at Cornell University, the Eastman School of Music, the University of Rochester Pre-College, and the Eastman Community Music School.