Called a “fearless, visionary and tremendously talented artist” (Sequenza21) and “a poetic soloist with a strong personality, yet unpretentious” (Die Presse, Vienna), Miranda Cuckson 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 Performances, 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 and with four orchestras in Japan and Europe, and the Violin Concerto by Marcela Rodriguez with the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de México.

Miranda is a member of AMOC* and founder/director of non-profit Nunc. She has guest curated at National Sawdust and done programming for the Contempo series in Chicago and Miller Theater in New York, among others. Miranda’s many lauded albums include Világ featuring the Bartok Solo Sonata along with new works; a live recording of the Ligeti Violin Concerto; the Korngold and Ponce concertos; albums of music by American composers; Bartók, Schnittke and Lutoslawski on ECM; Melting the Darkness, microtonal and electroacoustic music; and Nono’s La lontananza nostalgica utopica futura, which was named a Best Recording of the Year by the New York Times. She has a doctorate from the Juilliard School and she teaches at New School University.