Expanding the Canon
Mira presents a lecture recital on the Spiritual Suite of Margaret Bonds, MTNA Collegiate Symposium January 2024 Mira is dedicated to making the field of classical piano more inclusive. There are many composers of piano music who have been wrongfully neglected due to their race, gender, or sexual orientation. These composers deserve a place in the "canon” of piano works that are well-known and frequently performed, and Mira is dedicated to performing and recording music by diverse composers.
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Mira received a Rackham Doctoral Intern Fellowship to serve as a summer 2024 intern for A Seat at the Piano, a non-profit dedicated to promoting inclusion in piano repertoire. She will be working on expanding ASAP’s composer database among other forthcoming publications.Michigan Recording Project
Mira has worked with the Michigan Recording Project at the University of Michigan in 2023 and 2024 to make high-quality recordings of music by Florence Price, Margaret Bonds, and Irene Britton Smith. These are works that have never been performed on a degree recital at the University. Check out the project’s YouTube playlist and website.
Check out Mira’s recording of Betty Jackson King’s Four Seasonal Sketches!
Extensions of the Tradition
In partnership with MTNA at IU and the Jacobs School of Music Piano Department, Mira recorded Betty Jackson King’s rarely heard Four Seasonal Sketches in 2021. She later performed selections from the work for the Extensions of the Tradition e-concert put on by the African American Arts Institute at Indiana University, aired in Spring 2022.