Violinist Miranda Liu is one of the most dynamic and versatile musicians of her generation. Equally at home as a soloist, chamber musician, and concertmaster, she brings a distinctive combination of brilliance, intensity, and curiosity to the stage.

As a soloist, she has appeared in major venues including Carnegie Recital Hall in New York, Verizon Hall in Philadelphia, New World Center in Miami Beach, Liszt Academy of Music, Müpa Budapest, Vigadó in Budapest, Croatian Music Institute in Zagreb, National Philharmonic Hall in Vilnius, Kodály Center in Pécs, Romanian Radio Hall in Bucharest, Wiener Saal in Salzburg, and Philharmonic Hall in Kraków. As a chamber musician, she has performed at the Barbican Centre in London, the Witold Lutosławski Concert Studio of Polish Radio in Warsaw, the Palace of Culture in Târgu Mureș, and the Primatial Palace in Bratislava, among many others.

A prizewinner of numerous international competitions, Miranda Liu has given more than a thousand concerts worldwide. Her extensive career has taken her across Europe, Asia, and the United States, with performances in Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, China, Korea, Taiwan, and the USA.

Her repertoire encompasses more than seventy works for violin and orchestra. Highlights include performances of Dvořák’s and Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concertos with the Concerto Budapest Symphony Orchestra, Prokofiev’s Second Violin Concerto with the New World Symphony in Florida, Ravel’s Tzigane with the Rhode Island Philharmonic, Tchaikovsky’s Valse-Scherzo with the Las Vegas Philharmonic, Karłowicz’s and Młynarski’s Violin Concertos with the Kraków Philharmonic Orchestra, Wieniawski’s First Violin Concerto with the Silesian Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, Bruch’s First Violin Concerto with the National Radio Orchestra of Romania, Prokofiev’s First Violin Concerto with the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra, Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto with the Norddeutsche Philharmonie Rostock, and Shostakovich’s First, Bartók’s Second, Britten’s and Korngold’s Violin Concertos with the Redwood Symphony.

Miranda Liu tours internationally and records regularly as the Primarius of the V4 String Quartet. In 2026 she is taking Beethoven’s 10 Sonatas for Piano and Violin to the stage with pianist László Borbély and performing and recording György Kurtág’s Complete Works for String Quartet with the V4 String Quartet.

Since 2013 she has been based in Budapest, where she became Hungary’s youngest concertmaster at the age of 19 after winning the Concerto Budapest Symphony Orchestra’s concertmaster audition under András Keller. She has since led the orchestra for a decade in hundreds of performances. In recognition of her outstanding artistic achievements, she was granted Hungarian citizenship by the Hungarian State in 2022.

Born in California, Miranda Liu spent her childhood in Philadelphia and Salzburg.  She studied at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg, the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. In 2024 she earned her Doctor of Liberal Arts (DLA) in Violin Performance.  As a dedicated educator, she has led violin and chamber music master classes across Europe, including in Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, and Spain.  Ms. Liu speaks seven languages.

In 2019, she established the MiraTone Festival and Academy, which under her artistic direction has grown into one of Europe’s most prestigious international festivals, bringing together leading artists from around the world.  She works tirelessly to strengthen cultural exchange, support young artists, and bring classical music to new audiences.

Daniel Rumler studied at the Pardubice Conservatory under Jiří Kuchválek, at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague under prof. Jiří Tomášek and at the Hochschule Luzern - Musik under prof. Igor Karško and prof. Giuliano Carmignola. He completed his pedagogical education at the Hochschule Luzern - Musik in the Master programme in Music Pedagogy. He is currently studying as an internal doctoral student at the Academy of Arts in Banská Bystrica under the supervision of doc. Ján Krigovský. 

Between 2015 and 2018, he worked in the Swiss orchestras Musikkollegium Winterthur, Sinfonieorchester Biel-Solothurn and Camerata Zürich. Between 2018 - 2023, he was a member of the first violin group in the Slovak Philharmonic. Daniel Rumler is also a historically informed musician and performs as concertmaster with Collegium Wartberg and Volantes Orchestra.  He is a member of the international Visegrad Four string quartet called “V4 String Quartet”.  As a chamber musician, he has performed at major European festivals. 

He regularly collaborates with the Slovak Youth Orchestra, and since 2021 he has been teaching violin at the Conservatory in Bratislava.

Daniel Rumler is also a composer and arranger. His transcriptions have been recorded for the ECM label and Swiss Radio SRF and his works were performed in renowned institutions, such as Tonhalle Zürich or Slovak Philharmonic.

Czech violist and member of the FOK Symphony Orchestra in Prague, Tomáš Krejbich performs actively with the V4 String Quartet and the Sedláček Quartet.  

As a former violinist, his viola studies began in 2011.  He received his training at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague in the class of Prof. Jan Pěruška and at the Royal Danish Academy in Copenhagen under supervision of Tim Frederiksen and Lars Anders Tomter. During his academic years, he took part in many festivals and masterclasses, such as Kyoto International Music Students Festival, International Music Forum Trenta, Karen Tuttle Coordination Conference and many more, under the tutelage of Elmar Landerer (Wiener Philharmoniker), Roger Benedict (Sydney Symphony Orchestra) or Pieter Schoeman (London Philharmonic Orchestra).  

In 2016, he was a soloist in the Brahms- Saal at the Wiener Musikverein and later in 2017, he performed Tchaikovsky’s Souvenir de Florence with Boris Kuschnir, Nikolaj Znaider and Misha Quint at the Sulzbach-Rosenberg InterHarmony International Music Festival. He performed with various orchestras and ensembles such as: the European Union Youth Orchestra, PKF - Prague Philharmonia, Barocco Sempre Giovane and Prague Chamber Orchestra, alongside conductors like Jiří Bělohlávek, Jakub Hrůša, Gianandrea Noseda and soloists like Alisa Weilerstein, Giuliano Carmignola, Pinchas Zuckerman, Jana Boušková, Anna Netrebko or Diana Damrau.  His orchestral and chamber music experiences brought him into some internationally acclaimed concert venues such as Konzerthaus Berlin, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Usher Hall Edinburgh or Royal Opera House Muscat.

Béla Bartók: String Quartet No. 3

Béla Bartók: Piano Quintet

Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartet in A minor, Op. 132

Ján Levoslav Bella: String Quartet No. 2 in E minor, "Hungarian"

Ernő Dohnányi: String Quartet No. 2 in D-Flat major, Op. 15 

Ernő Dohnányi: Piano Quintet No. 1  in C minor, Op. 1

Antonín Dvořák: String Quartet in F major, Op. 96

Antonín Dvořák: String Quartet in A-flat major, Op. 105

Antonín Dvořák: Piano Quintet in A major, Op. 81

Leos Janáček: String Quartet No. 1, "Kreutzer Sonata"

Jiri Kabát: Huc sol venit* (2021) 

Kuba Krzewiński: String Quartet No. 1*

Witold Lutosławski: String Quartet (1964)

Willem Pijper: String Quartet No. 2

Ludovit Rajter: String Quartet No. 2

Erwin Schulhoff: Five Pieces for String Quartet

Iris Szeghy: 3. String Quartet "Hommage à Mednyánszky"* (2022)

Sándor Szokolay: String Quartet No. 1

Gergely Vajda: Ein Lichtspiel: Schwarz Weiss Grau* (2021) 

Sándor Veress: String Trio

Ilya Zeljenka: Musica slovaca

*dedicated to the V4 String Quartet