Biography

Early in her career Mina Miletic was hailed as a rising star by the UK Piano Magazine and she has since enjoyed a wide-ranging and varied career performing extensively throughout Europe, the USA, the UK and the Far East. After attending the Belgrade University, she was awarded E. Power Biggs scholarship to study at the Royal Academy of Music in London with Paul Lewis and Colin Stone. Mina was also awarded a special bursary from the Serbian Ministry of Science and Technology, received Newby Trust Educational Grant, Craxton Memorial Trust Award, Sir Richard Stapeley Educational Trust Award and she completed her doctoral thesis on ‘Interpretation of Impressionistic Piano Music’. For five years she was the Honorary Secretary of the Beethoven Piano Society of Europe and during this time she collaborated with many distinguished pianists and scholars in promoting Beethoven’s pianistic oeuvre and was active as a contributor and reviewer for the Arietta journal. Mina has a particular affinity with the music of Beethoven and she performed Beethoven’s complete piano sonatas, as well as his sonatas for violin and piano with violinist Dimitar Burov, complete works for cello and piano with cellist Nicola Tait and complete piano trios with various artists.

Mina Miletic is passionate about education and she combines her busy career as a pianist with her work as a piano professor at Eton College, Harrow School and Wycombe Abbey. She has given master-classes in Bulgaria, Serbia, Switzerland, USA and the UK and is regularly engaged as an adjudicator for festivals and competitions. Recent students’ successes include finalists of the BBC Young Musician and winners of The Queen’s Commendation for Excellence.

A versatile personality, Mina shows interests in various forms of artistic expression. She has won prizes in literary competitions and has published short stories in several anthologies. In February 2009 Mina was named Belgrade Ambassador of Ecology and in July 2009 was voted in the Top 10 Most Successful Young Serbs in the World.