Violinist Mia Laity Appointed to New York City Ballet Orchestra

Laity comes to the role from a position at the Sarasota Orchestra

Violinist Mia Laity has recently been appointed as a Section Violin at the New York City Ballet Orchestra, having come to the job from a position at the Sarasota Orchestra.

Mia studied with Grigory Kalinovsky, Sylvia Rosenberg, and Laurie Smukler at the Manhattan School of Music as the recipient of the L. John Twiford Scholarship, receiving the Helen Airoff Dowling award for the outstanding violinist graduating from the BM program.

She received her Master’s of Music degree as a student of Grigory Kalinovsky at Indiana University, where she also taught violin as an Associate Instructor.

Before joining the NYCB orchestra, she was a tenured core member of the Sarasota Orchestra’s violin section. During the summer, Mia performs as assistant concertmaster of the Charlottesville Opera, and in Steamboat Springs Colorado as part of the Strings Festival orchestra.

She is also the Events Manager for Perlman Music Program Suncoast, and the Executive Director of Soundbox Ventures, a new arts organization that serves as a platform for artist curators and recently created the Listen Hear! series at the Sarasota Art Museum.

Laity made her solo debut aged eleven with the Baylor University Orchestra. Then, in 2007 and 2009, she appeared with the Phoenix Symphony — first as the Grand Prize winner of the Phoenix Youth Symphony Concerto Competition, and then again as the First Place and Clotilde Otranto prizewinner.