A winner of the 2019 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, Miles Mykkanen garners recognition and praise on the world’s concert and operatic stages for his “focused, full-voiced tenor” (New York Times). Of his performance in the title role of Albert Herring, Opera News reported, “Miles Mykkanen displayed a lovely lyric voice with an appealing honeyed sweetness in the timbre, which he employed with intelligence and humor.”
Miles Mykkanen’s 2024-25 season includes his debut at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Die Tote Stadt led by Lothar Koenigs and a return to The Cleveland Orchestra for staged performances of Jenufa under the baton of Music Director Franz Welser-Möst. The tenor’s broad artistic range is also showcased in two productions at Dutch National Opera: he bows as Alfred in a new production of Die Fledermaus staged by Barrie Kosky with chief conductor Lorenzo Viotti on the podium, as well as in the world premiere creation of We Are The Lucky Ones by composer Philip Venables and director Ted Huffman conducted by Bassem Akiki. On the concert stage, he joins Music Director Tito Muñoz and the Phoenix Symphony for performances of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and returns to the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra for performances of Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis with Music Director Nathalie Stutzmann.
Mykkanen’s passion is to create art that is entertaining, provoking and accessible to the communities it serves. When he’s off the stage, Miles frequently teaches master classes and develops new work with composers. He created the Emberlight Festival as a way to expose his hometown to world-class artists while also celebrating the many artists who live in this region and, frankly, created him.
The tenor is a 2019 Sara Tucker Study Grant winner, youngARTS Gold winner and the recipient of prizes from the Sullivan Foundation, Toulmin Foundation, Novick Career Advancement Grant, and Juilliard’s Joseph W. Polisi Award. Miles Mykkanen is a graduate of the Interlochen Arts Academy and earned his Artist Diploma in Opera Studies, along with his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees, from The Juilliard School under the tutelage of Cynthia Hoffmann.
He earned his Artist Diploma in Opera Studies, along with his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees, from The Juilliard School and trained at the Interlochen Arts Academy, Franz Schubert Institute, Marlboro School of Music, Wolf Trap Opera, and Opera Theatre of Saint Louis. The tenor is the recipient of prizes from the Sullivan Foundation, Tucker Foundation, Toulmin Foundation, Novick Career Advancement Grant, youngARTS, Juilliard’s Joseph W. Polisi Award, and The Metropolitan Opera.