A “visionary and tremendously talented artist” (Sequenza21), violinist/violist Miranda Cuckson has a greatly esteemed career delighting audiences with her playing of a range of music and styles, from older eras to the newest creations.
Dedicated and active in the Western classical repertoire, Miranda has also given innumerable performances of new music, playing an inspirational role in bringing new creations more to the center of cultural life. Reflecting her deeply felt perspective as a multiethnic American, Miranda works with an array of artists from many backgrounds. Composers who have written works for her include Wang Lu, Anthony Cheung, Jeffrey Mumford, Aida Shirazi, Steve Lehman, Rand Steiger, George Lewis, Harold Meltzer, Dongryul Lee, Jason Eckardt, Reiko Füting, Michael Hersch, and Stewart Goodyear. In addition to supporting many emerging artists, she has worked closely with renowned composers including Henri Dutilleux, John Adams, Elliott Carter, Salvatore Sciarrino, Pierre Boulez, George Crumb, Vijay Iyer, Philip Glass, Kaija Saariaho, Mario Davidovsky, Shulamit Ran, and Tristan Murail. She is a member of the interdisciplinary collective AMOC and founder/director of music non-profit Nunc.
A distinctive and lauded soloist and collaborator, she performs worldwide at venues large and small, from casual spaces to concert halls. As recital and concerto soloist, she has played at the Berlin Philharmonie, Suntory Hall, Casa da Musica Porto, Teatro Colón, Cleveland Museum, Art Institute of Chicago, Strathmore, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra’s Liquid Music series, National Sawdust, and the Ojai, Bard, Marlboro, Portland, Music Mountain, West Cork (Ireland), SinusTon (Germany), Grafenegg and Wien Modern (Austria), and LeGuessWho and Soundsofmusic (Netherlands) festivals.
Miranda made her Carnegie Hall debut playing Walter Piston’s Violin Concerto No. 1 with the American Symphony Orchestra. She recently premiered Georg Friedrich Haas’s Violin Concerto No. 2 with three co-commissioning orchestras in Japan and Europe, and the new Violin Concerto by Marcela Rodriguez with the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de México. Miranda has released many acclaimed albums, including the Ligeti, Korngold, and Ponce concertos; violin music by American composers Finney, Shapey, Martino, Sessions, Carter, Glass, and Hersch; her ECM Records recording of Bartók, Schnittke and Lutoslawski; Melting the Darkness, an album of microtonal and electronic pieces; and Nono’ s La lontananza nostalgica utopica futura, which was named a Best Recording of the Year by the New York Times. Miranda teaches at the Mannes School of Music at New School University. She is an alumna of The Juilliard School, where she studied from Pre-College through her doctorate and was awarded Juilliard’s Presser Award.
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