Bio

Originally from a town of 800 (now 799) people in rural Kansas, virtuoso pianist Mia Vassilev started playing the piano from the age of 3 and currently performs her retro stage show, MIA, nationally.  She holds degrees, awards and assistantships to the doctoral level from Kansas State University, the University of Cincinnati-College Conservatory of Music, and University of Miami’s Frost School of Music and was a New World Symphony piano fellow post-graduate. Mia has worked as a chamber musician and opera accompanist, working for tours and production rehearsals with the Metropolitan Opera (NY), Glimmerglass Opera (NY), Florida Grand Opera, Cincinnati Opera, Opera Theatre and Music Festival of Lucca, Italy, the American Institute of Musical Studies Festival in Graz, Austria.

She has locally produced and directed epic 10-piano original shows under the auspices of Miami Piano Circle, which she founded and directed from 2011-2017. She currently performs her solo show, MIA, internationally. She served as an adjunct professor of piano at Barry University from 2010-2022.

Recordings include Several Times, [the chamber music of Dennis Kam], released by Navona Records, the Naxos album Del Caribe, Soy!, Ecstatic Records’ MIAMI GRANDS, and most recently, cover singles Stardust, Blue Moon, Sleepwalk, Moonlight Serenade, and two self-released solo albums, VELVET NIGHTNOTES and PIANO ON THE RUN!

Mia’s hobbies include biking, falling down in skis at high speeds, and reading Ayn Rand.

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