As an award-winning composer, saxophonist, and gamelan musician, Naarm/Melbourne based saxophonist Mira Stephens has performed and had compositions played in Australia, Europe and Asia. Mira’s music is inextricably influenced by nature, meditation and philosophy, and her artistic output effortlessly lives and breathes between predefined structures. Artistic clarity and audience experience sit at the forefront of her art music practice.

Mira completed a Bachelor of Music (Honours) in classical saxophone at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music and as a recipient of the Joyce McKenna Travel Scholarship studied at the Sibelius Academy in Finland in 2024-25.

Mira’s work As Dawn Turns for 100 saxophonists was commissioned for the 2023 University of Melbourne Mega Day and had a repeat performance in Thailand. As a winner of the 2022 Artist Portfolio Prize, she created, Brink of Destruction for saxophones, loop pedal, and painter. Her commission Downstream for very large saxophone ensemble was performed in 2022. Mira was awarded Honourable Mention in the 2020 Australian Saxophone Competition for improvising Echoes of a Peaceful Journey.

As a member of Gamelan DanAnda, Mira has performed at major festivals and events to tens of thousands of people a year, including Port Fairy Folk Festival, National Folk Festival, live on PBS, Fed Square, as well as many other concerts and religious ceremonies.