Miriam is a Polish/Irish flautist and freelance photographer. Curious about a variety of styles, she equally enjoys performing with modern orchestras, early music ensembles and contemporary groups, as well as capturing other artists and their creative endeavours.
She has appeared at concert series at the National Concert Hall, chamber music festivals around Ireland, on CD recordings with the Irish Baroque Orchestra, Arcangelo, Crash Ensemble, Haydn Philharmonie and the Vanbrugh Quartet as well as several RTÉ lyric FM broadcasts. She has been guest principal flute with the Irish Chamber Orchestra, Tonkünstler Orchester, RTÉ Concert Orchestra, Haydn Philharmonie, Irish National Opera and the Ulster Orchestra.
Miriam has featured as soloist in flute concerti by Liebermann, Ibert, Nielsen, Mozart, Telemann and Vivaldi. A member of the experimental new music group, Kirkos Ensemble, she has brought contemporary Irish music to audiences at home, in the UK, New York and Beijing. Most recently Miriam was awarded the Tile Style Bursary in the Business to Arts Awards 2021. She was the Irish Freemasons' Young Musician of the Year 2015, inaugural recipient of the RDS Jago Award and a multiple ESB Feis Ceoil prizewinner.
Having been fascinated with early music for as long as she can remember, she taught herself the traverso for three years before receiving an Arts Council Travel and Training Award which enabled her to take lessons in London. She now plays with the Irish Baroque Orchestra and has fond memories performing with Arcangelo, Dresdner Barockorchester, Collegium Marianum, Ex Cathedra, Camerata Kilkenny, Ensemble Marsyas and the Geminiani Ensemble. She has worked on Bach Cantata projects directed by Philippe Herreweghe and Mark Padmore and performed alongside baroque flautists Wilbert Hazelzet, Rachel Brown and Jana Semeradova. A dedicated teacher, she has been involved with a number of educational and outreach projects in Ireland and the UK for the past 8 years, is a tutor for the Irish Youth Baroque Orchestra and occasionally leads classes at the Royal Irish Academy of Music.
Miriam graduated from the Royal Irish Academy of Music as a pupil of William Dowdall and Patricia Morris, followed by a Master's Degree at Kunstuniversität Graz with Erwin Klambauer. Among her other influential teachers were Michael Cox, Lisa Beznosiuk and Rachel Brown as well as memorable masterclass encounters with William Bennett, Peter-Lukas Graf, Sir James Galway, Lorna McGhee, Andras Adorjan and Felix Renggli. She was a Britten-Pears Young Artist, member of the Grafenegg Academy and a scholarship participant of the Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra Institute in Toronto.
At 11, after months of photographing pebbles, pavements and her guinea pig with a slider Sony Ericsson, she was gifted a compact camera for Christmas. She got her first analogue camera at 15 from her parents and it has served her ever since.
Miriam is grateful for the support of the Music Network funded by the Arts Council and the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, the RDS, RTE lyric fm, Flax Trust, South Dublin County Council, RIAM, Halpin & Jago families and the ever-supportive Bill Dowdall.
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