A returning artist to the Sunflower Festival, Diego Miralles began his cello studies in Los Angeles at age four, giving his first featured solo performance at fifteen at the Ambassador Auditorium in Pasadena, shortly after beginning studies with the legendary Eleonore Schoenfeld. He went on to pursue undergraduate studies in Music Performance at the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music on a merit scholarship, with additional studies in London and with distinguished artists Ron Leonard, Daniel Rothmuller, and Ben Hong. A versatile artist spanning early classical to contemporary and popular genres, Miralles has performed, toured, and recorded with an extraordinary roster of celebrated artists including Yo-Yo Ma, Sting, Andrea Bocelli, Tony Bennett, Stevie Wonder, Mariah Carey, Rod Stewart, Barry Manilow, Frank Sinatra Jr., and composer-arranger David Foster, and has performed alongside Yana Reznik and Robert Gupta and many other menbers of the Los Angeles Philharmonic on numerous occasions. He has appeared as principal and a soloist with many regional orchestras and, in 2009, founded the Hermes Piano Trio, which performed at Saint Martin in the Fields during the Haydn Festival and at the Classic FM European Music Festival in Sofia, Bulgaria. A committed innovator in live performance, Miralles covers a broad spectrum of styles, including jazz, folk, and rock, and notably collaborated with Yo-Yo Ma and neuroscientist Antonio Damasio on the multimedia production Self Comes to Mind in New York, and in 2014 won the Music Directorship of the Brentwood-Westwood Symphony Orchestra, where he brought his signature multimedia vision to acclaimed stagings of animated film soundtracks. He has also performed in major productions with the Los Angeles Opera and at various festivals and chamber series across the United States. Miralles performs on a Montagnana model cello custom-built in 1997 by his brother, world-renowned luthier Mario Miralles.
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