MIRANDA SIELAFF
Viola

Allsar String Quartet; Diller-Quaile School; School for Strings

Violist Miranda Sielaff has been featured in concerts at New York City’s most prestigious and most cutting-edge performance spaces, including (Le) Poisson Rouge, Miller Theater, Bargemusic, and Carnegie Hall.

As a member of the Allsar String Quartet, Miranda programs and performs on a concert series entitled “Hearing the Sacred” at the Museum of Biblical Art. Praised for its “ingenious and compelling” programming by critic Steve Smith, the series has featured new and old works side by side in the context of hearing sacred music in conjunction with specific art exhibits. Miranda has played with The Knights since 2002. Other ensembles with which she regularly performs include SONYC, Wet Ink, and Columbia Composers.

She has toured with the Lucerne Festival Academy to Essen and Tokyo, and in 2008 she was featured in Carnegie Hall’s Making Music: Pierre Boulez. Current projects include a re-imagination of Ligeti’s Viola Sonata that includes jazz improvisers, and a tour to Germany and Ireland with The Knights.

As a Suzuki violin and viola teacher, Miranda teaches at the Diller-Quaile School and the School for Strings. In addition to adhering to the Suzuki philosophy, much of Miranda’s teaching has been focused on bringing new music into the studio and classroom.

As a Morse Fellow at Juilliard she taught a month of lessons in the classroom leading up to an interactive performance of Crumb’s Black Angels. Composer commissions for her students framed the dialogue of “Teaching to the Future of Classical Music,” a 2005 presentation for ASTA that can be found on the web at http://www.ikatmethod.com/miranda.html. Miranda holds degrees from Rice University and the Juilliard School..