Velléda Miragias enjoys a multifaceted career as an orchestral and chamber musician, educator, and collaborative artist. A Boston-based French-American cellist acclaimed for her “impeccable technical mastery [and] strong expression” (Le Confolentais), Miragias currently serves as Associate Principal Cello with the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra and Assistant Principal Cello with the Cape Symphony, and performs regularly with many of New England’s leading orchestral and period ensembles.

 

Trained in France and the United States, she attended the Conservatoire National de Boulogne and the Conservatoire Supérieur de Paris rue de Madrid, and later continued her studies at Indiana University, earning the prestigious Performer Diploma as a student of Iseut Chuat and János Starker, and at Boston University, where she received her Master of Music.

 

Miragias is the recipient of France’s Ministry of Culture Award and a first-prize winner of the Prix de la ville d’Épernay. Early in her career, she appeared at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence and the Festival de violoncelle de Beauvais — performing alongside Renaud Capuçon, János Starker, and Jian Wang — and participated in master classes with Isaac Stern, Natalia Gutman, and Anner Bylsma.

 

With chamber music residing at the heart of her artistic identity, Miragias regularly collaborates with a wide range of artists and ensembles. She has recently recorded the complete flute trios of Joseph Haydn for Arabesque Records, and premiered Meira Warshauer’s Coquelicot for flute and cello, commissioned by the Boston Public Library for Miragias and flutist Carol Wincenc.

 

Deeply committed to teaching and mentorship, she serves on the faculty of Phillips Exeter Academy and the Rivers School Conservatory and teaches at the International Academy of Music in Italy's Tuscany region, where she coaches chamber music in an immersive festival setting.