Miriam Teppich was born in London and studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama with David Takeno and Mark Knight. She was a string finalist in BBC Young Musician of the year 1996 and the following year won the Julius Isserlis Scholarship from the Royal Philharmonic Society. This funded further study at the Paris Conservatoire with Boris Garlitski and Jean-Jaques Kanterow.

In the UK Miriam won many prizes for solo and chamber music playing including the Rose Bowl in the Guildhall and Gold Medal for a performance of Bartok’s 1st Violin Concerto in the Barbican Hall, London. She has also received awards from the Martin Musical Scholarship Fund, the Hattori Foundation and the Rotary Club of Great Britain and played in master classes with Lorand Fenyves at the International Musician’s Seminar at Prussia Cove, Cornwall as well as attending the Aspen Festival in Colorado, USA.

Whilst in Paris, Miriam led the chamber orchestra Jeune Orchestre Lyrique Français on a tour of France and led the orchestra of Academie de XXème Siècle in a performance of Shoenberg’s Verklarte Nacht at the Cité de la Musique under the baton of Pierre Boulez.

Venues for solo and chamber music appearances have included the Purcell Room, the Wigmore Hall and the Royal Albert Hall. A duo partnership with pianist Elli Spačová was formed in 1999 and recitals have been well received in London and Paris. Miriam has also performed concertos by Barber, Bruch, Elgar, Sibelius, Tchaikovsky and Brahms with the Northampton and Oxford Symphony Orchestras.

Miriam plays regularly with the Philharmonia Orchestra as well as the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra of English National Opera and the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields.