Mira Walker is quickly building a career as a performer known for her sensitive interpretations of repertoire ranging from J.S. Bach to Florence Price. Mira completed her B.A. in Music at the University of Alabama at Birmingham with Yakov Kasman, and her M.M. in Piano Performance at Indiana University with Norman Krieger. She is currently a D.M.A. candidate in Piano Pedagogy and Performance at the University of Michigan under the instruction of Logan Skelton and John Ellis, where she also serves as a Graduate Student Instructor. Her dissertation work focuses on the pedagogical legacy of Margaret Bonds.

Mira’s honors include top prizes in dozens of competitions, including the NFMC Collegiate Piano Competition and the Alabama Symphony Concerto Competition. In recognition of Mira’s excellence in teaching, she was awarded the Joanne Smith Award for Piano Pedagogy in 2023. Mira has been a featured soloist with orchestras such as the Alabama Symphony Orchestra and the National Ukrainian Symphony and appears at international music festivals such as the Gilmore Festival, Gijón International Piano Festival, Vivace International Music Festival, and Brevard Music Institute. She has presented and performed at national and international conferences such as MTNA, NCKP, and CMS/IAWM. Most recently, Mira recorded works by Florence Price, Margaret Bonds, Irene Britton Smith, and Nathaniel Dett for the Michigan Recording Project, and was awarded a Rackham Doctoral Fellowship to work with A Seat at the Piano, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting inclusion in piano repertoire. During the summer of 2025, she is working with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra to provide community programming in neighborhoods around the city of Detroit.