Micaela Fruend Haimov is a Long Island based violist and chamber musician. In recent years, she has performed at Carnegie Hall with New Music for Strings Festival Orchestra, at the Women Composers Festival of Hartford, at University of Tennessee- Knoxville’s Contemporary Music Festival, and has collaborated with members of the Emerson String Quartet at Stony Brook University. Micaela toured with Four Seasons Chamber Music Festival’s Next Generation concert series in 2015 and 2019 and has attended festivals such as Astona International Summer Music Academy and Madeline Island’s Fellow String Quartet Program. A committed music educator, Micaela has spent past summers as a coach and mentor at chamber music programs in both New York and North Carolina.  Haimov graduated with her Doctorate of Musical Arts degree from Stony Brook University, where she studied with Lawrence Dutton, Nicholas Cords, and Matthew Lipman.