Miranda Cuckson
In demand as a soloist and chamber musician in a full range of repertoire, violinist and violist Miranda Cuckson has earned a reputation in recent years for outstanding performances of contemporary music. Downbeat magazine described her as “one of the most sensitive and electric interpreters of new music.”
She first appeared on ECM as part of the ensemble for Vijay Iyer’s Mutations album. Cuckson’s discography also includes Luigi Nono’s La lontananza nostalgica utopica futura for violin and electronics, as well as works by Korngold, Sessions, Carter, Xenakis, Ralph Shapey and Michael Hersh, among others. In 2012, she performed a work by Harold Meltzer that was commissioned for her by the Library of Congress in honor of Fritz Kreisler.
Having performed from the Berlin [...]
In demand as a soloist and chamber musician in a full range of repertoire, violinist and violist Miranda Cuckson has earned a reputation in recent years for outstanding performances of contemporary music. Downbeat magazine described her as “one of the most sensitive and electric interpreters of new music.”
She first appeared on ECM as part of the ensemble for Vijay Iyer’s Mutations album. Cuckson’s discography also includes Luigi Nono’s La lontananza nostalgica utopica futura for violin and electronics, as well as works by Korngold, Sessions, Carter, Xenakis, Ralph Shapey and Michael Hersh, among others. In 2012, she performed a work by Harold Meltzer that was commissioned for her by the Library of Congress in honor of Fritz Kreisler.
Having performed from the Berlin Philharmonie to the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, she made her Carnegie Hall debut in Walter Piston’s Violin Concerto with the American Symphony Orchestra. A prize-winning graduate of the Juilliard School, Cuckson is on the violin faculty at the Mannes School of Music at New School University, in New York City.
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