Milo Klise is a 20-year old cellist from Berkeley CA, studying with Dr. Melissa Kraut at the Cleveland Institute of Music. He is a member of the CIM Orchestra, collaborating with esteemed conductors such as: Leonard Slatkin, Gustavo Dudamel, Joann Falletta, Anthony Panther and others. Before college, Milo played with the San Francisco Youth Orchestra for three seasons and the Oakland Symphony Youth Orchestra for two.

In Cleveland, Milo is a member of CIM’s Advanced Piano Trio Program under the leadership of Sharon Robinson with collaborators: Jaime Laredo, Jessica Lee, Todd Phillips and Keith Robinson. His love of chamber music has taken him to many summer festivals: Mendocino Music Festival, Green Mountain Music Festival, Ascent Music Festival, Pacific Crest Music Festival, Aronson Cello Festival and three summers with the Sphinx Performance Academy at both The Juilliard School and the Curtis Institute of Music. Along with playing in an orchestra, performing in small ensembles, for Milo, is one of his strongest passions. 

Over the years, Klise has participated in master classes with an array of talented faculty: Richard Aaron, Bonnie Hampton, Astrid Schween, Mike Block, Evan Kahn, Christine Lamprea, Joseph Lin, Sterling Elliott, Cho-Liang Lin, Dover Quartet and Catalyst Quartet to name a few. 

Milo will always be most grateful to his wonderful teachers, both past and present: Dr. Melissa Kraut, Richard Weiss, Sébastian Gingras, Dr. Thomas Mesa and Cathy Allen Aird whose collective generosity of spirit and all things music, is the gift of a lifetime.