Miriam started violin at age 10, with Gretchen Anner at the Toronto Waldorf School.

After moving to BC in 1995, she studied with Wallace Leung at the Delta Music School. She was concert master of the Intermediate Orchestra of the Delta Youth Orchestra for two years before joining the Senior Orchestra. At the same time she joined the Vancouver Philharmonic. In 1997 she was concert master of the BC Honours Orchestra.

After completing high school, Miriam began a music degree at the Vancouver Academy of Music while studying with Mark Koenig. After 3 years, with her third year recital completed, she decided to move to Victoria, where she finished her Bachelor of Music at the University of Victoria with Ann Elliott-Goldshmid.

Miriam began teaching privately while still in school and in April of 2005 began teaching violin and fiddle at Larsen’s School of Music. In March of 2006 she began teaching at Daniel Lapp’s House of Music. She currently teaches in her home studio and at fiddle camps in British Columbia and the North West Territories.

Miriam has played in shows at Richmond’s Gateway Theatre, with the Kamloops Symphony and on Vancouver Island with the Gilbert and Sullivan Society. In addition to playing weddings and private and professional gigs, she loves busking for the summertime tourists and sitting in on old-time fiddle and bluegrass jams around Victoria.

Miriam is currently performing with the Victoria Chamber Orchestra, and the Raven Baroque Ensemble.

Miriam is a member of Flash In The Pan and The Sweet Lowdown. She also plays in a duo with her partner Jeff called Sweet Ginger. She has also been a member of Shady Characters.

Have a listen!