Violinist and violist Miranda Cuckson delights audiences internationally with her performances as soloist and chamber musician in a wide range of repertoire and styles, from music of older eras to the most current creations. She appears in halls large and small, universities, galleries and informal spaces. She has in recent years become one of the most acclaimed performers of contemporary music, bringing new works more into the center of classical music life. Downbeat magazine recently stated that she “reaffirms her standing as one of the most sensitive and electric interpreters of new music.”

She made her Carnegie Hall (Stern Auditorium) debut playing Walter Piston’s concerto with the American Symphony Orchestra. She recently premiered new concertos written for her by Georg Friedrich Haas in Tokyo’s Suntory Hall, Stuttgart’s Liederhalle and Porto’s Casa da Musica and by Marcela Rodriguez in Mexico City’s Palacio de Bellas Artes. She also gave the New York premiere of Michael Hersch’s violin concerto. Her recent recital appearances include the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra’s Liquid Music series, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Miller Theatre, Strathmore, The Art Institute of Chicago and the Look and Listen Festival. Other venues range from the Berlin Philharmonie and Teatro Colón, to the Guggenheim Museum and Cleveland Museum’s Transformer Station, to the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University, as well as the Marlboro, Bard, West Cork (Ireland), Portland, Music Mountain, Sinus Ton (Germany), LeGuessWho and Soundsofmusic (the Netherlands) festivals.

In addition to working with many emerging young composers, Miranda has worked with an array of renowned composers including Dutilleux, Carter, Adès, Sciarrino, Adams, Boulez, Hyla, Mackey, Crumb, Iyer, Saariaho, Davidovsky, Hurel, Bermel, Wyner, Murail, Wuorinen and Currier. Among the composers who have recently written for Miranda are Jason Eckardt, Reiko Füting, George Lewis, Lu Wang, Katharina Rosenberger, Steve Lehman, Aida Shirazi, and Harold Meltzer (Library of Congress commission and Grammy-nominated album).

Her album of Bartók, Schnittke and Lutoslawski was released by ECM Records in 2016 and her recording of Luigi Nono’s La lontananza nostalgica utopica futura on Urlicht Audiovisual was named a Best Recording of 2012 by the New York Times. Also on Urlicht Audiovisual, she released Melting the Darkness, a lauded album of solo microtonal and violin+electronics pieces by Xenakis, Haas, and more. Her adventurous and varied discography also features the Korngold and Ponce violin concertos, and music by Finney, Shapey, Martino, Carter, Sessions, Hersch, Ferneyhough, Wolpe, Glass, Mumford, Weesner, Füting, and more.

Miranda is founder/director of Nunc, a member of the artist collectives AMOC and counter)induction, and an artistic advisor at National Sawdust in Brooklyn. She studied at The Juilliard School from Pre-College through her doctorate and won Juilliard’s Presser Music Award. She teaches at New School University’s Mannes School of Music in New York.