Violinist/violist Miranda Cuckson is active as a soloist and collaborator and delights audiences with her performances of music ranging from older eras to the newest creations. Engaging with many musical avenues (including those of Western classical traditions and various tributaries of American music), she has pursued a personal path motivated by sincere interest, innovation, and exploration, the expression of any human feelings and experiences, and the realization of virtuosity, craft, and invention. Her particular interests include the playing of stringed instruments in musical cultures and contexts, and the porousness of the arts of interpretation and composition.
Miranda premiered Georg Friedrich Haas’ Violin Concerto No. 2 in four countries. She made her solo debut at the Vienna Musikverein with this piece in 2023, with the Vienna Radio Symphony and conductor Markus Poschner, and the live recording was recently released on the Urlicht AV label. Her live performance of the Ligeti Violin Concerto with the UC Davis Orchestra has also been released, on Centaur Records, to great acclaim.
She is a featured artist at festivals internationally including Wien Modern, Grafenegg, Lincoln Center, Ojai, Le GuessWho, West Cork, Bard, Frequency, Time Spans, and Sinus Ton, and by such presenters as St. Paul’s Liquid Music, 92NY, Miller Theatre, Suntory Hall, Mexico City’s Palacio de Bellas Artes, Teatro Colón, Library of Congress, Cleveland Museum, San Francisco Performances, Isabella Gardner Museum, and Detroit Institute of Art.
Her upcoming projects include a new violin concerto by Jeffrey Mumford; Limin’,a concert-length duo by/with pianist Stewart Goodyear, to be released on Avie Records; a collaboration with harpist Parker Ramsay including a new duo by Haas; a work for solo violin and choirs by Rene Hirschfeld; and solo performances in Germany and Japan.
Her widely-lauded recordings include Világ featuring the Bartók Solo Sonata and folk-flavored compositions; the Korngold, Ponce, and Piston concertos; Bartok, Schnittke, and Lutoslawski on ECM; the Grammy-nominated Songs and Structures by Harold Meltzer; Michael Hersch’s the wreckage of flowers; several albums of 20th-century American music; and Melting the darkness, a forward-looking compilation of microtonal/electronic music. Her album of Luigi Nono’s La lontananza nostalgica utopica futura was named a Recording of the Year by the New York Times.
Miranda is passionate about all the arts and is a core member of the American Modern Opera Company (AMOC*), an interdisciplinary collective that has been featured at the Ojai and Lincoln Center Festivals. She founded the non-profit Nunc and has been noted throughout her career for her venturesome, probing, and thoughtfully threaded programming and curation.
Miranda teaches violin and chamber music at the Mannes School of Music/New School University. She frequently writes and speaks to audiences about music and she holds a doctorate from The Juilliard School.
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