A native of Salt Lake City, Utah, Mira Armij Gill is of East-Indian descent.  Ms. Gill is a graduate of The Juilliard School where she received her Bachelor’s with John Browning and her Master’s with Yoheved Kaplinsky. In 1997, Ms. Gill made her New York debut at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall as a result of winning the Artist’s International Young Artist’s Piano Award.  Also in 1997 she performed recitals at Sprecher Hall in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, the John Jay Recital Hall in Katonah, New York and in the Temple Square Concert Series in Salt Lake City, Utah.  During that same year she performed in the Weiner Saal Concert Hall in Salzburg, Austria as well as the Mozarteum’s concert series in Radstadt, Austria. And in 1996 she performed in Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall in its “Wednesdays at One” series for piano music. Ms. Gill has attended the Gnessin Institute’s Summer Festival in Moscow, Russia, and the Mozarteum Summer Academy in Salzburg, Austria and also Tanglewood in Lenox, Massachusetts.

In the 1990’s Ms. Gill was a featured soloist with the Utah Symphony under the baton of Maestro Joseph Silverstein.

Her playing of Liszt’s First Piano Concerto in E Flat Major was reviewed by the Salt Lake Tribune and described as “a bravura performance with confidence and flair”.

Also to her credit were her solo performances with the Midland-Odessa Symphony in both Midland and Odessa, Texas.  Other soloist engagements include the Jefferson Symphony, in Golden, Colorado; the Murray Symphony in Murray, Utah; the Oberlin Conservatory Chamber Orchestra in Oberlin, Ohio; the Brigham Young University Chamber Orchestra in their “Mozart Survey” concert series, in Salt Lake City, Utah. Some of her performances have been broadcast live over KSL Radio, as well as KBYU Radio, and she was featured on Eugene Gelesnik’s Talent Showcase on KSL Television.

In addition, Ms. Gill has won numerous prizes, including First Place in the Jefferson Symphony Concerto Auditions, in Golden, Colorado, and First Place in the Utah Symphony Guild Competition held in Salt Lake City, Utah.  She was also the youngest of three Grand Prize Winners in the Midland-Odessa National Concerto Auditions in Odessa, Texas.   She was also awarded First Place in the Kawai America National Competition in Salt Lake City, Utah, and the Arlette Day Piano Competition in Murray, Utah. Ms. Gill also won Second Place in the Joanna Hodges International Brahms Competition held in Palm Desert, California.

In 2004, Ms. Gill was a featured artist in the Messiah Festival of the Arts’ concert series in Flushing, New York. Since 2004 she has been giving solo concerts in Bar Harbor and at the Summerkeys Festival in Lubec, Maine.

Ms. Gill released her debut CD in April 2005 during her recital at the Steinway Hall, New York which was recently reviewed by Cyprien Katsaris, one of the greatest international pianists: “She has a remarkable technique and, more important, a genuine musical feeling”.

In October 2005, Hon. Mr. Pramathesh Rath, Consul General of India in New York, invited Ms. Gill to give a recital at the Consulate General of India in New York. This recital was to celebrate his appointment as Ambassador to Argentina, and to welcome his successor Hon. Mrs. Neelam Deo. In the audience were other dignitaries such as Mr. Rabindra Nath Panda, Consul for Education and Culture as well as the Indian business community. Ms. Gill received media attention from local newspaper  Desi Talk  and was featured in the national magazine The Urban Indian.    Later that month, Ms. Gill organized a benefit concert for the Katrina and Rita victims at the Alma Gluck Recital Hall in Manhattan which donations went to Habitat for Humanity’s “Operation Home Delivery”.

Ms. Gill’s  2006 calendar includes recitals at  the Summerkeys Festival  in Maine and at the Steinway Hall in Manhattan in the Fall. In addition, as former Juilliard student of the late pianist John Browning, Ms. Gill contributed to the making and completion of a documentary entitled “Memories of John Browning, the Lhevinne Legacy Continues”, produced and directed by Ms. Salome Ramras Arkatov.  During her interview and special feature on the “Browning’s/Lhevinne’s Russian technique”, excerpts from her CD serve to demonstrate his tremendous influence on her playing and teaching.  Other contributors to the documentary include Steven Mayer, pianist; David Dubal, pianist and  broadcaster on WQXR; and Leonard Slatkin, conductor and music director of the National Symphony Orchestra.

On April 21, 2007 she will perform the Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major as a guest artist with the Fort Collins Symphony Orchestra in Colorado under the baton of music director, Wes Kenney. 

Ms. Gill’s previous teachers include Dr. Irene Peery, Dr. Bonnie Winterton, and Peggy Dalton. She resides in New York City and is currently on the piano faculty of the Turtle Bay Music School in Manhattan.