Stephen Miahky has garnered acclaim for his performances as a recitalist and a chamber musician throughout North America and Europe. His most recent engagements include performances New York City's Symphony Space, Merkin Hall, and Bargemusic, Atlanta's ProMozart Society, the Princeton Chamber Music Society, the Southwest Virginia Festival of the Arts, Vancouver's Sonic Boom Festival, the American Academies in Rome and Berlin, the Netherlands' De Lakenhal, NPR's Performance Today, and for the Dalai Lama on his most recent visit to the United States.

As a chamber musician, Miahky has performed at Monadnock Music, the Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival, Kneisel Hall, Chamber Music Ann Arbor, with the Michigan Chamber Players, the Bryant Park Quartet, the iO Quartet, and with the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble. He has performed with such distinguished musicians as Martin Katz, Nicholas Eanet, Martin Beaver, Norman Fischer, Steven Doane, and members of the Arianna, Chester, Concord, Tokyo, and Los Angeles Piano Quartets.  Miahky is currently a member of Brave New Works, and a rotating concertmaster with the IRIS Orchestra.

Miahky has been a soloist with the Cornell Symphony Orchestra, the Cornell Chamber Orchestra, the Ann Arbor Symphony, the Brave New Works Ensemble, the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble, the IRIS Orchestra, and the University of Michigan Philharmonia.  He has won several competitions and awards, including the University of Michigan Concerto Competition, the Ohio Federation of Music Clubs Competition, the Louis Lane Competition, and was the recipient of a Virtu Foundation instrument grant.  Miahky spent five summers as a fellowship student at the Aspen Music Festival, most recently as the solo violinist of the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble, where he gave the world premiere of Sydney Hodkinson's violin concerto.  He can heard on AMP, New Dynamic, and Edition Modern labels, as well as on an upcoming release on the Naxos and Bridge labels.

A native of Akron, Ohio, Miahky received his D.M.A. from Rutgers University where he received the Bettenbender Award for outstanding artistic achievement.  He received his B.M. and M.M. from the University of Michigan and remains the university's only two-time winner of the Earl V. Moore Award for outstanding achievement.  Miahky studied chamber music with Andrew Jennings, Martin Katz, and members of the Cleveland, Juilliard, American and Tokyo String Quartets, and received additional training at the Aspen Music Festival, the Meadowmount School, the Perlman Music Program, Canada's National Arts Centre, and the Blossom Festival.  His teachers include Arnold Steinhardt, Paul Kantor, Stephen Shipps, and Alan Bodman.  He has served on the faculty of the Point Counterpoint Chamber Music Camp and Cornell University.