Violist Claudia Lasareff-Mironoff was a featured performer at the 2007 Outside the Box New Music Festival at Southern Illinois University, the 2005 New American Music Festival at Cal State Sacramento and the 2004 Bowling Green State University New Music and Art Festival.  Performing with 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.  Having graduated 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. She was the principal violist of the Cape Town Symphony in South Africa, performing frequently as a soloist. She has performed chamber music with Ilya Kaler, William Wolfram, Christopher O’Reily, members of the Chicago Symphony, members of the Lyric Opera, the Chicago Contemporary Chamber Players, the Pacifica String Quartet, and the Orion Ensemble. She has performed with 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, Fulcrum Point New Music Project and the Colorado Music Festival Orchestra.  In July of 2005 she performed in Fulcrum Point's debut performance at the Ravinia Festival.  She performed with the Santa Fe Opera for the 2007 season. She joined the faculty of Northwestern University in 2000-04 as the Coordinator of String Chamber Music.  She currently teaches viola and chamber music at Wheaton College. She has given guest artist recitals and master classes at Northwestern University, Wheaton College, DePaul University, University of Northern Illinois, Southern Illinois University, and Roosevelt University.

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