Violinist Mia Detwiler is a dedicated teacher and sought-after interpreter of contemporary music who is passionate about encouraging the next generation of performers to engage with new music. She has premiered more than one hundred works and appears regularly at festivals around the world, including the Foro Internacional de Música Nueva Manuel Enríquez, New Music Gathering, Mise‑En Music Festival, University of Louisville New Music Festival, Days of New Music Tirana, New Music on the Bayou, and the Kaleidoscope MusArt Series. A founding member of the Amorsima Trio, a Chamber Music America grantee, she actively commissions and performs new works by living composers and is frequently invited to universities across the United States to collaborate with and perform music by emerging artists. An avid chamber musician, she also performs with Duo Chromatica, Ensemble Mise‑En, Sounds Modern, Minerva Contemporary Ensemble, Threaded Resonance, and Dallas Chamber Symphony. Her performances can be heard on recordings released by New Focus, Stradivarius, Ravello, and Wanderweiser, among others. Detwiler holds a Doctor of Musical Arts in Violin Performance from the University of North Texas and currently serves on the violin faculty at Texas Woman’s University.