Miranda Mastracci
Violin
Born in 1999, Miranda Mastracci began studying the violin at the age of six in Geneva with Dan Dery. In 2017, she joined Mihaela Martin’s class at the Cologne University of Music and Dance, before continuing her studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz in Silvia Marcovici’s class, from which she graduated in 2021 with the highest honours. She then went on to study with Alessandro Moccia at the Conservatory of Lugano, obtaining her master’s degree in 2024. During this time, she also received tuition from Grigory Kalinovsky and Liviu Prunaru.
A keen enthusiast of contemporary music, she is a member of the Danish New Music Academy.
In 2023, she created a programme and recorded an album in collaboration with the Claypot collective, and in 2024 she performed at the International Society for Contemporary Music (IGNM Österreich) as part of the Sounding Visions Award. She is the second violin section leader of the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra, where she works with composers Lisa Streich, Beat Furrer, Hans Abrahamsen and George Benjamin.
Miranda Mastracci has won several competitions, including the Leonid Logan International Competition and the Orchestre des Trois-Chêne Competition. She has received grants from the Lyra Foundation and the Giuliana & Giorgio Stefanini Foundation. She is a member of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Academy in Amsterdam for the 2021/2022 season, and performs regularly with the Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra. In 2023, she will join the first violins of the chamber orchestra I Solisti di Pavia. She will join the Orchestre de Paris in September 2024.