Biography

Miranda Scripp is currently getting her Bachelor of Music at New York University, studying Music Theory and Composition with a concentration in Screen Scoring. Previously, she studied composition privately with John McDonald and Howard Frazin. She is also a multi-instrumentalist, having studied piano with Jonathan Bass and violin with Kelly Barr at the New England Conservatory Preparatory Division. Miranda is an avid chamber musician and spent seven summers at Greenwood Music Camp, where she played piano, violin, and viola, and composed music for the camp. Equally dedicated to composing and performing, Miranda has been a member of the New York Youth Symphony Orchestra and Chamber Music Programs and the Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra and has performed in Carnegie Hall, Symphony Hall, and New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall. In addition, Miranda has studied jazz piano and jazz composition, and she has transcribed and arranged many jazz standards. She currently plays violin and viola in the student-run chamber orchestra, Westside Chamber Players. Miranda’s original scores can be heard in many films created and directed by students of NYU’s Kanbar Institute of Film and Television.