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November 13, 2011
The 2012 Montecito International Music Festival application is now available here!
October 1, 2011
The 2012 Montecito International Music Festival dates have now been set for July 16 - August 4, 2012!
October 23, 2010
The website has now been updated with the latest information for the 2011 season! We will continue to update our updates as more information becomes available.
October 20, 2010
Ida Haendel, Aaron Rosand, and John Perry have been announced as our special guest artists for the 2011 season!

Summer Session: July 16 - August 4, 2012
Application Deadline: March 15, 2012
Scholarship Application Deadline: March 1, 2012
Notification of Acceptance: April 5, 2012
Deposit Due: April 15, 2012
Tuition Balance Due: May 15, 2012

2012 Season Application - Now available!
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| Stephen Miahky - violin |

Stephen Miahky has garnered acclaim for his performances as a soloist, recitalist and chamber musician throughout North America and Europe. His most recent engagements include performances New York City's Symphony Space, Merkin Hall, and Bargemusic, Atlanta's ProMozart Society, the Princeton Chamber Music Society, the Southwest Virginia Festival of the Arts, Vancouver's Sonic Boom Festival, the American Academies in Rome and Berlin, the Netherlands' De Lakenhal, NPR's Performance Today, and for the Dalai Lama on his most recent visit to the United States.
As a chamber musician, Miahky has performed at Monadnock Music, the Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival, Kneisel Hall, Chamber Music Ann Arbor, with the Michigan Chamber Players, the Bryant Park Quartet, the iO Quartet, and with the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble. He has performed with such distinguished musicians as Martin Katz, Nicholas Eanet, Martin Beaver, Norman Fischer, Steven Doane, and members of the Juilliard, Cleveland, Arianna, Chester, Concord, Tokyo, and Los Angeles Piano Quartets. Miahky is currently a member of Brave New Works, a contemporary music ensemble dedicated to education and enrichment through new music.
Miahky has performed as associate concertmaster with the Ann Arbor Symphony, and has performed with ensembles such as the New York City Ballet, Princeton Symphony, Columbus ProMusica, and the Ohio Valley Symphony. He currently serves as a rotating concertmaster of the IRIS Orchestra based in Memphis, Tennessee.
Miahky has been a soloist with the Cornell Symphony Orchestra, the Cornell Chamber Orchestra, the Ann Arbor Symphony, the Brave New Works Ensemble, the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble, the IRIS Orchestra, and the University of Michigan Philharmonia. He has won several competitions and awards, including the University of Michigan Concerto Competition, the Ohio Federation of Music Clubs Competition, the Louis Lane Competition, and was the recipient of a Virtu Foundation instrument grant. He can heard on AMP, New Dynamic, and Edition Modern labels, as well as on upcoming releases on the Naxos and Bridge labels.
A native of Akron, Ohio, Miahky received his D.M.A. from Rutgers University where he received the Bettenbender Award for outstanding artistic achievement. He received his B.M. and M.M. from the University of Michigan and remains the university's only two-time winner of the Earl V. Moore Award for outstanding achievement. Miahky studied chamber music with Andrew Jennings, Martin Katz, and members of the Cleveland, Juilliard, American and Tokyo String Quartets, and received additional training at the Aspen Music Festival, the Meadowmount School, the Perlman Music Program, Canada's National Arts Centre, and the Blossom Festival. His teachers include Arnold Steinhardt, Paul Kantor, Stephen Shipps, and Alan Bodman. He has served on the faculty of the Point Counterpoint Chamber Music Camp and Cornell University, and currently serves as Assistant Professor of Violin at the Ohio University School of Music.
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