Claudia Lasareff-Mironoff, Viola
Violist Claudia Lasareff-Mironoff was a featured performer at the 2005 New American Music Festival at Cal State Sacramento and the 2004 Bowling Green State University New Music and Art Festival. Performing extensively with her modern chamber group PINOTAGE and the Fulcrum Point New Music Project, she has had the opportunity to premiere new chamber works in Chicago by many composers including David Stock, Bruce Adolphe, Bernard Rands, Elizabeth Start, Robert Lombardo, Jan Bach and Kathleen Ginther. Graduating cum laude from the University of Denver with a bachelor of music degree, she then earned a master of music and a performer’s certificate from Northwestern University. From 1992-96 She was the principal violist of the Cape Town Symphony in South Africa, where she recorded for the SABC and performed frequently as a soloist. In 1998 she performed on the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Series at the Chicago Cultural Center broadcast on WFMT. Ms. Lasareff-Mironoff has performed with the Rembrandt Chamber Players, members of the Chicago Symphony, the Chicago Contemporary Chamber Players, the Pacifica String Quartet, the Chicago Philharmonic, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Grant Park Symphony, and has been the principal violist of the Chicago Opera Theater, The Chicagoland Pops Orchestra, the Joffrey Ballet, the Chicago Sinfonietta, and the Colorado Music Festival Orchestra. She has recorded chamber works for the SABC and for Albany Records. She joined the faculty of Northwestern University in 2000-04 as the Coordinator of String Chamber Music. Currently she teaches viola and chamber music at Wheaton College Conservatory. She has given guest artist recitals and master classes at Northwestern University, DePaul University, University of Northern Illinois, Southern Illinois University, Wheaton College and Roosevelt University. In July of 2005 she performed a chamber recital at the Ravinia Festival with Fulcrum Point. She will be broadcast in Australia on the ABC in 2006-07 performing solo and chamber music works by Australian composers. She will play with the Santa Fe Opera during the 2007 season.