Sara Miranda

Sara Miranda serves as instructor at the Mississippi State University Department of Music, she is currently teaching at the Starkville-Oktibbeha public schools strings program in partnership with MSU and co-conducts the Philharmonia and Symphony Orchestra.

Ms. Miranda has appeared as soloist and with chamber music ensembles at the most important music festivals in Costa Rica, like the Baroque Music Festival, the Credomatic Music Festival, and the National Festival of Arts, playing at venues like the Teatro Nacional, and Teatro Melico Salazar. Workshops in this area include lessons with Christina Zacharias from Tafelmusik, Cuarteto Latinoamericano, Kronos String Quartet and Brooklyn Rider String Quartet. In the United States she has been guest artist with the Tucson Guitar Orchestra and at the North Star Music Festival.

Her orchestral experience includes appointments with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Heredia, Orquesta Sinfónica de la Universidad de Costa Rica as assistant concertmaster, and in the United States a substitute position at the Tucson Symphony Orchestra.

As orchestra conductor she has appeared at the North Star Music Festival and worked assisting the Truman State University Symphony Orchestra. Along with her performance career Sara has held teaching appointments at National System of Music in Costa Rica, where she worked as a violin professor and chamber music coach, and in the United States at Truman State University as well as The University of Arizona as teaching assistant.

Sara Miranda is currently finishing a Doctoral degree in Music and Arts in violin performance with the guidance of Professor Timothy Kantor, along with a minor in Cognitive Science at the University of Arizona, where she was a Medici scholar. She holds a B.M. from the University of Costa Rica in violin performance and strings pedagogy, and a master’s degree from Truman State University in violin performance and orchestral conducting.