Catherine Towns Miller

It has been an exciting few years! I am a founding member of Los Angeles-based Pushing Air, and play fiddle in the bluegrass bands Taproot and The Crooked River Fire Brigade. I also get to have the immense fun of playing fiddle for the East Side Irish American Club Ceilidh Band and recently, I have joined Wire and Wood, playing violin/viola/fiddle and singing oldies and standards.

What else could a girl want?

More, of course!

I am always looking for new challenges and opportunities. You can get a feel for my playing style from my Have a Listen page. If you are interested in lessons, please check out Lessons. And, if you want to know more about what I have been doing for the last couple of decades, you can view my Resume.

I have studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music and I am a graduate of the Blair School of Music at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN. There, I studied with John Kochanowski, Kathryn Plummer and members of the Blair String Quartet. I have been teaching private violin, viola and fiddle lessons in the Cleveland, Ohio area for the last fifteen years.

I am a versatile artist, able to teach and perform classical, Irish, bluegrass, Scottish, and jazz music. In recent years, I have performed at all manner of functions, including but not limited to bookings with various bands, weddings, funerals, corporate functions, classical orchestral concerts, old-time ice cream socials, fiddle competitions, church and temple services, and jam sessions.