Mira has been widely praised for her deeply sensitive performances of repertoire ranging from J.S. Bach to Florence Price, and overwhelmingly lauded by her students for creating challenging yet positive learning environments focused on the individual potential of each student. Mira’s major teachers include Yakov Kasman, Norman Krieger, and Logan Skelton. Mira completed her Bachelor of Arts in Music at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and her Master of Music in Piano Performance at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. Mira is a candidate for the Doctor of Musical Arts in Piano Pedagogy and Performance at the University of Michigan, completing her dissertation work under the instruction of Logan Skelton (piano) and John Ellis (pedagogy). She also serves as a Graduate Student Instructor at the University of Michigan.

Mira’s honors include top prizes in dozens of competitions, including the inaugural Music International Grand Prix, National Federation of Music Clubs Collegiate Piano Competition, the Alabama Symphony Concerto Competition, the Musicians Club of Women Instrumental Competition, and the Southern Adventist University Concerto Competition. In recognition of Mira’s excellence in teaching, she was awarded the Joanne Smith Award for Piano Pedagogy in 2023. In 2022, she was awarded a Gilmore Festival Fellowship, where she worked closely with pianists Michelle Cann and Lara Downes.

Mira is an active performer, appearing nationally and internationally in solo and chamber recitals. She has appeared as a soloist with orchestras such as the Alabama Symphony Orchestra and the National Ukrainian Symphony. Mira has appeared in master classes with Ann Schein, Jeremy Denk, Boris Slutsky, Marina Lomazov, Arthur Greene, and many others. She appears frequently at international music festivals such as International Summer Music Academy (Kyiv, Ukraine), Gijón International Piano Festival (Gijón, Spain), Rebecca Penneys Piano Festival (Tampa, Florida), Vivace International Music Festival (Wilmington, North Carolina), and Brevard Music Institute (Brevard, North Carolina). Mira is is actively involved with the MTNA Chapter at the University of Michigan, serving as the Vice President for 2022-2023 and 2023-2024. She presented a lecture recital on the Spiritual Suite by Margaret Bonds at the 2024 MTNA Collegiate Symposium, and has presented at national conferences hosted by MTNA and NCKP.

Mira was awarded a Rackham Doctoral Fellowship to work with A Seat At the Piano during the summer of 2024, where she will be helping to expand a database of works by underrepresented composers and contribute to ongoing publication projects. Other recent and ongoing projects include recording for the Michigan Recording Project, and community performances through Community Keys and the Ann Arbor Summer Festival.