Born in Seefeld, Clarissa Miller Viola studied with Jorge Sutil and chamber music with Urs Stiehler in Munich. Later she continued her studies with Nora Chastain continue in the artistic special class in Stuttgart. This was followed by a three-year master's program at the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, USA. Viola with Paul Coletti and Roberto Diaz, chamber music with Earl Carlyss (Juilliard String Quartet) and Leon Fleisher. She graduated from the Graduate Performance Diploma. Since then she is free chamber musician and teaches viola / violin and orchestra in Munich. First you focus was on contemporary music, later on Tango. Since 2004 she has devoted herself especially of historical performance practice.