Violist Miranda Werner and pianist Yoshino Toi perform music by George Rochberg’s Viola Sonata, George Gershwin’s Three Preludes, and works by Amy Beach and Florence Price, live from Seventeenth Church of Christ, Scientist, Chicago.
Praised for her “elegant” and “exuberant” performances (The Strad), violist and violinist Miranda Werner is equally at home as a chamber musician, soloist, and interpreter of new music.
Miranda is a second-year M.M. candidate at the Yale School of Music, where she studies with Ettore Causa. She earned her first master’s degree from Yale as a student of Soovin Kim, and completed her undergraduate studies with Mark Kaplan at Indiana University, graduating with High Distinction and Music Honors. She has previously studied with Nicholas Cords, Mark Holloway, and Linda Case.
In October 2025, she was awarded the Walter Witte prize for the best interpretation of the commissioned piece at the Hindemith International Viola Competition, where she advanced to the semifinals and premiered Isabel Mundry’s “Composition for Viola.”
Yoshino Toi, born in Tokyo, Japan, is earning her Doctor of Musical Arts at New England Conservatory, studying with Pei-Shan Lee and Cameron Stowe. She won the prestigious Duo Competition at the Music Academy of the West in 2024.
