Mia: Miami Pianist!

Miami Beach, FL

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Travels up to 200 miles

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Stardust (a little slice of heaven)

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Overview

Hello there! I am a Miami-based professional pianist, with worldwide performing experience, from intimate gatherings to the largest performing arts centers. I offer two stage shows, Keys on Fire! featuring retro favorites and RHAPSODIC, a Gershwin-themed show.


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Booking information

Price range: Contact for rates

Languages: English

About

Virtuoso Pianist Mia Vassilev started playing (or making noise) from the age of 3 and has performed throughout Europe, Asia, Latin America, and the US.
Recordings include Several Times, the chamber music of Dennis Kam, released by Navona Records, the Naxos album Del Caribe, Soy!, Ecstatic Records’ MIAMI GRANDS, composed by Michael Torke, and most recently, singles Moonlight Serenade, Classical/EDM Toccata, and two self-released solo albums, VELVET NIGHTNOTES and PIANO ON THE RUN!
Originally from a small town in Kansas and based in Miami Beach, she is a frequent soloist with the Hallendale Symphonic Pops Orchestra, the Alhambra Orchestra, the Sugar Pops Orchestra, and the Klezmer Company Orchestra in Boca Raton, and, when wearing her glasses, is an adjunct Professor of Piano at Barry University in Miami Shores.
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. 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 produced and directed epic 10-piano original shows locally. She currently performs her solo show, MIA, nationally.
Mia’s hobbies include falling down in skis at high speeds and reading Ayn Rand.

Additional booking notes

Stage plot and tech rider available upon request.

Set list

Brasil
Tico-Tico
Boogie-Woogie in F
Besame Mucho
Carmen's Boogie
Bumble Boogie
Love is Blue
Cumbanchero
Great Balls of Fire
Aquarius
House of the Rising Sun
Malaguena
Clair de Lune
Moonlight Serenade
Stardust

Setup requirements

Tech rider and stage plot available upon request.

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