MixTape #12: String Trio Repertoire by Female Composers - By Miriam Kirby

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Miriam Kirby is an international cellist and also the co-founder of The Hague String Trio. Read more about her:

Miriam Kirby has lived and worked in England, Germany and the Netherlands. She studied with Joan Dickson at the junior department of the Royal College of Music where she won the concerto prize. Miriam took lessons for many years with William Pleeth and won a scholarship to study with Melissa Phelps at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where she won the chamber music and cello sonata prizes.

Miriam continued her studies as a DAAD scholar with Johannes Goritzki at the Robert Schumann Hochschule in Düsseldorf. She has also had lessons with Robert Cohen and Shunske Sato. Miriam took part in master classes with Steven Isserlis, Ralph Kirshbaum, Dorothy De Lay, Menahem Pressler and the Tákàcs Quartet. In England she worked regularly with the English Chamber and Royal Philharmonic Orchestras. In Germany she was co-principal cello of the Deutsche Kammerakademie and since 1998 has been a member of the Residentie Orkest, The Hague. Miriam plays on a cello made by Bronek Cison in 1996.

Source: The Hague String Trio

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