Sought after as a soloist and chamber musician in a wide range of repertoire, violinist/violist Miranda Cuckson has recently been praised as "fiercely gifted" (Time Out NY) and “a brilliant young performer who plays daunting contemporary music with insight, honesty, and temperament" (the New York Times). In 2008, she performed the Berg and Brahms concertos in New York and California, and made her debut with the Jerusalem Symphony conducted by Leon Botstein. She has appeared as soloist with orchestras including Indianapolis Symphony, Concerto Soloists of Philadelphia, the Virginia Symphony, Long Beach Symphony, Aspen Festival Orchestra, Shanghai Symphony, Beijing Radio Orchestra, and on tour in Germany and Poland with the Jeunesses Musicales World Orchestra. Her recording with the Czech National Symphony of concertos by Korngold and Ponce was released by Centaur Records to much critical praise. She subsequently made three recital CDs of twentieth-century American music for Centaur: lauded disks of music by Ralph Shapey, Donald Martino, and Ross Lee Finney. For these projects, she was awarded grants from the Copland and Ditson Funds. Her upcoming recording projects include another Copland-funded CD of Shapey's violin music, and the solo violin works of Michael Hersch for Vanguard Classics. Ms. Cuckson made her recital debut at Carnegie's Weill Hall as winner of the Presser Music Award. She has performed at such venues as the Berlin Philharmonie, Zankel Hall, Miller Theatre, 92nd Street Y, Phillips Collection, Guggenheim Museum, Bargemusic, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Marlboro, Bridgehampton, Bodensee, and Lincoln Center festivals. A passionate champion of new music, she is involved in groups including the Argento Chamber Ensemble, ACME, and Sequitur. Her upcoming events include the world premiere of a work for violin and ensemble by Jeffrey Mumford, a recital of Italian music at the Italian Academy, and a Composers Portrait concert at Miller Theatre of Shapey's music, for which she will be artistic director. Following her recent performance of Elliott Carter’s Duo at the Library of Congress in Washington, the McKim Fund commissioned composer Harold Meltzer to write her a work to be premiered at the Library for the 50th anniversary of Fritz Kreisler's death. Ms. Cuckson studied at The Juilliard School, where her teachers included Robert Mann, Dorothy DeLay, and Felix Galimir, and she recently received her doctorate. She teaches at Mannes. A U.S. citizen and New York resident, she was born in Australia and is of primarily Taiwanese, Austrian, and English descent.
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