Deborah Miles-Johnson was born in London and studied at the Royal College of Music. She now fulfills a busy and varied career performing regularly in all the major London concert venues and throughout the UK. She is currently engaged on a tour of Bach's St. Matthew Passion with the English Concert visiting Spain, Istanbul, Salzburg and Japan.

Engagements in recent seasons include Stravinsky's Requiem Canticles which she has performed with both Simon Rattle (CBSO) and Andrew Davies (BBCSO), The Dream of Gerontius with the New Queens Hall Orchestra under Matthew Best, Mendelssohn's Elijah in Toronto, Mozart's Mass in Cminor at the Barbican and Verdi's Requiem at St. George's Chapel, Windsor.

She has performed and recorded with the Taverner Consort, including the St. Matthew Passion with Andrew Parrott and the Norsk Barokkorkester in the prestigious Ansbach Bachwoche; The Sixteen when they toured Brazil performing classical Brazilian music and Handel's Israel in Egypt and also the lead role in Handel's Il Parnasso in Festa for the London Handel Society under Denys Darlow which was taken by the BBC. She is also a regular guest with the Northern Sinfonia in their performances of Messiah and most recently Beethoven's Mass in C.

A regular performer of the contemporary repertoire, Deborah stood in at three days notice to premiere a new work Laments by Brian Elias with the BBCSO under Tadaaki Otaka which was well received at last year's Cheltenham Festival. She has also performed Jean Barraque's au dela du hasard... which she recorded with the virtuoso group Klangforum at the Vienna Konzerthaus. Other concert performances include the role of Mrs. Alexander in Satyagraha by Philip Glass under Martyn Brabbins at the Festival Hall, and one of the secretaries in the first London performance of Nixon in China by John Adams with Kent Nagano and the LSO.

Among her commercial recordings are Peter Maxwell Davies' Resurrection with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Arvo Part's Stabat Mater and Carl Rutti's Magnificat for ASV. A regular performer of Rutti's music, she performed the world premiere of the Magnificat the 1999 Proms and his Stabat Mater at St. Johns Smith Square. She made her Wigmore Hall debut performing Upon Silence by George Benjamin with the composer as conductor together with the viol group Fretwork following performances at the Festival Archipel in Geneva.

Deborah has been a regular visitor to Haddo House in Aberdeen where she has performed Madame Larina in Eugene Onegin, Prince Orlovsky in Die Fledermaus and Mrs. Sedley in Peter Grimes by Britten - a role she has also performed for Richard Hickox. Other roles include Mme. Popova in The Bear by Walton at the Thaxted Festival, Betty Doxy in The Beggars Opera in the Britten/Gay arrangement (which was performed and recorded at the Aldeburgh Festival) and one of the Converse in the EMI recording of Suor Angelica.