Expanding the Canon
Mira is dedicated to making the field of classical piano more inclusive. Her dissertation work focuses on the pedagogical legacy of Margaret Bonds. Since 2023, she has recorded works by Margaret Bonds, Nathaniel Dett, Florence Price, and Irene Britton Smith for the Michigan Recording Project (more information below). In 2025, Mira is presenting a series of recitals featuring women composers of the Chicago Black Renaissance, with plans to release recordings in the near future.
Check out A Seat at the Piano!
Mira received a Rackham Doctoral Intern Fellowship to serve as a summer 2024 intern for A Seat at the Piano, a non-profit dedicated to promoting inclusion in piano repertoire. She worked to expand ASAP’s composer database among other forthcoming publications, and started ASAP Kids, an educational video series.Michigan Recording Project
Mira has worked with the Michigan Recording Project at the University of Michigan starting in 2023 to make high-quality recordings of music by Florence Price, Margaret Bonds, Irene Britton Smith, and Nathaniel Dett. This project produces high-quality recordings of works that have never been performed on a degree recital at the University. Check out the project’s YouTube playlist and website.
Check out Mira’s recording of Betty Jackson King’s Four Seasonal Sketches!
Extensions of the Tradition
In partnership with MTNA at IU and the Jacobs School of Music Piano Department, Mira recorded Betty Jackson King’s rarely heard Four Seasonal Sketches in 2021. She later performed selections from the work for the Extensions of the Tradition e-concert put on by the African American Arts Institute at Indiana University, aired in Spring 2022.