Miranda Cuckson is known for her organic expressivity, dexterous virtuosity, intuitive insight, sincerity of emotion, and love for music. Recently called a “fearless, visionary and tremendously talented artist” (Sequenza21) and “a poetic soloist with a strong personality, yet unpretentious” (Die Presse, Vienna), she delights audiences with her performances of music ranging from older eras to the newest creations. An internationally acclaimed soloist and collaborator, violinist and violist, she enjoys performing at venues large and small, from concert halls to casual spaces.  She has been a featured artist at the Berlin Philharmonie, Suntory Hall, Teatro Colón, Cleveland Museum, Art Institute of Chicago, San Francisco’s Herbst Theater, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra’s Liquid Music, 92nd St Y, National Sawdust, and the Ojai, Bard, Marlboro, Portland, Music Mountain, West Cork, Grafenegg, Wien Modern, Frequency, and LeGuessWho festivals.

Miranda made her Carnegie Hall debut playing Piston’s Concerto No. 1 with the American Symphony Orchestra. She recently premiered Georg Friedrich Haas’ Violin Concerto No. 2 at the Vienna Musikverein with the Vienna Radio Symphony and with the Tokyo Symphony, Orchestra of Casa da Musica in Porto, and SWR Symphonieorchester in Stuttgart. She also premiered the Violin Concerto by Marcela Rodriguez with the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de México at the Palacio de Bellas Artes.

Miranda is a member of interdisciplinary collective AMOC and director of non-profit Nunc. She has guest curated at National Sawdust, the Contempo series in Chicago, and Miller Theatre in New York. Her many lauded albums include Világ featuring the Bartok Solo Sonata with contemporary works; the Ligeti, Korngold, Ponce, and Piston concertos; music by 20th century American composers; Bartók, Schnittke, Lutoslawski sonatas; Melting the Darkness, an album of microtonal/electronic music; and Nono’s La lontananza nostalgica utopica futura, named a Recording of the Year by the New York Times.

Miranda Cuckson is an alumna of The Juilliard School, where she earned her BM, MM, and DMA degrees and started in the Pre-College at the age of nine. She teaches violin and chamber music at the Mannes School of Music at New School University. She is a US citizen of Austrian, English, and Taiwanese descent.

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Miranda is represented by Colbert Artists and can also be contacted directly.