Arjola Miruku
Piano
a.miruku@tcu.edu

Arjola Miruku began playing the piano at age seven and made her debut on national television in her birth country, Albania, at age ten. With her family, Arjola moved to the U.S. in 1997 not speaking any English.  While adapting to a new language and culture, she excelled in piano as well as academics graduating Valedictorian of her high school, Douglas Anderson School of the Arts.

Arjola graduated Magna Cum Laude from Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida where she received a Bachelor of Arts in Piano Performance.  There, she was a student of Dr. Gary Wolf.  Under his teaching, she was the two time winner of Wednesday Music Club Competition for Piano and Voice, and preformed the MacDowell Concerto No. 2 with the Rollins College Orchestra in April 2008.  In her undergraduate, Arjola was a chapter founding member and President of Sigma Alpha Iota Music International Fraternity for Women.  Her interest in classical music also led her to create and host the weekly program of piano music called PianoForte on WPRK- 91.5 FM Radio.  She has appeared in master classes with Andre Watts, Daniel Pollack, Frederic Chiu, and Mordecai Shehori and has performed in various venues around Northeast and Central Florida.

In 2006, Arjola spent a semester in London, England interning with St. Martin-in-the-Fields concentrating on classical music business.  While in London, she continued her piano lessons at the Royal Academy of Music with Christopher Elton.  Arjola is currently pursuing a Master’s of Music Degree in Piano Pedagogy at TCU and continuing her piano studies with Mr. John Owings.  She holds a Graduate Assistantship where she aids in instructing undergraduate class piano, Pedagogy Laboratory Program, computer lab and private teaching for the TCU Music Preparatory Division.  Arjola is a Member of the Music Teacher’s National Association as well as Fort Worth Music Teacher’s Association.

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