Miranda Cuckson

Next week, on Thursday, June 27th: composer @scott.wollschleger returns to Roulette to celebrate the release of his new album BETWEEN BREATH, out TODAY on @newfocusrecordings ! 🔥 Compositions by Wollschleger – recently described as “a small masterpiece” by the @nytimes – will be performed by violin/violist Miranda Cuckson, percussionist Kevin Sims, trombonist William Lang @williamkeatslang , and pianists Karl Larson and Anne Rainwater, all close collaborators of Wollschleger. The program will be highlighted by the New York premiere of a major new work for solo violin: 𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘵 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘕𝘰. 7, in addition to New York premieres of multiple other new works. Here’s an excerpt of @mirandacmusic performing 𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘵 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘕𝘰. 7, which was written for her. Video by Ryan Streber from @oktavenaudio .

The Comet/Poppea opens tonight at Geffen Contemporary MOCA in Los Angeles, with music by George Lewis and Claudio Monteverdi, featuring AMOC and the Industry. Tickets: /program/the-comet-poppea /projects/the-comet-poppea/ From visiting wonderful Rome to a Monteverdi opera about Nero’s Rome. A few photos from Rome a few weeks ago - pic4 Rest on the Flight into Egypt, by Caravaggio pic5 John Keats’ room

We are so excited to announce the release of Urlicht Audiovisual and Miranda Cuckson’s LP Debut! Available today via musicalconcepts.net/cucksonlp The album features three works on two very distinctive LP sides. Stewart Goodyear‘s “Solo; A Suite for Solo Violin” and two pivotal postwar works for solo violin: Iannis Xenakis‘s “Mikka S“ and Franco Donatoni‘s “Argot”. The unique jacket design showcases both sides of the LP with individual front covers. This limited-edition release utilizes Direct Metal Mastering for maximum fidelity to the original high- definition sources and is pressed on 180-gram audiophile-quality vinyl by Precision Record Pressing, and includes an insert with complete liner notes and credits.

Fermo, Italy

A couple weeks ago, I had the opportunity to be a juror of the Postacchini International Violin Competition @concorsopostacchini which has been held in Fermo, Italy for 30 years. It’s a very lovely organization and I enjoyed it greatly. It was a pleasure to get to know new colleagues on the jury - delightful people and artists. The playing by the young violinists - from Europe, Asia and the US - was excellent, accomplished, expressive, and at times quite moving. We listened for 8 days to four age categories. First rounds were Paganini caprices, solo Bach, Mozart concertos. It took me back to my musical roots, a place I’m very comfortable in but where I don’t spend such a fully immersive time nowadays. Fermo is an idyllically beautiful town from pre-Roman times, on a hill between the Adriatic Sea and Apennine mountains. It sits on top of 30 rooms of Roman underground cisterns that are among the oldest and largest in the world. Listening in current times to all that old, wonderful music in that ancient town, I felt carried centuries into the past and touched by the sincere young people’s music-making amid the vibrancy of the cherished local culture. For me it was a meaningful perspective.

Miranda Cuckson’s debut LP is officially available for pre-order on Amazon.com! Make sure to get your copy now — click our bio link to order.

🔥Secret Machine No. 7 written for and performed by Miranda Cuckson💜 - video feature in The Strad Magazine (link in bio). Miranda and I had a lot of fun collaborating on this piece together and we’re so happy to finally share it with you all. Come hear Miranda give the NYC premiere of the piece at my album release show happening June 27 at Roulette! The piece appears on my new album, Between Breath, coming out on New Focus Recordings 6.21. 🔥 @mirandacmusic @newfocusrecordings @the_strad_ @roulette_intermedium

We are so excited to share a look at BOTH covers from the June 14 release of Urlicht Audiovisual and Miranda Cuckson’s LP Debut! The album features three works on two very distinctive LP sides. Stewart Goodyear‘s “Solo; A Suite for Solo Violin” and two pivotal postwar works for solo violin: Iannis Xenakis‘s “Mikka S“ and Franco Donatoni‘s “Argot”. The unique jacket design showcases both sides of the LP with individual front covers. This limited-edition release utilizes Direct Metal Mastering for maximum fidelity to the original high- definition sources and is pressed on 180-gram audiophile-quality vinyl by Precision Record Pressing, and includes an insert with complete liner notes and credits. [Learn more in our bio link]

from Morton Feldman’s Extensions 1 Conor Hanick @conorlhanick on piano our Feldman concert at the New York Studio School @ny_studioschool Sept 2023 /shorts/dHeytSohKEU?si=2dLyVjGlg—CLKLS

The night of Feb 1, after an evening hang with composers at the Florida State University Festival of New Music in Tallahassee, I was walking back to the hotel and talking with friend and festival guest composer Du Yun. Carrying a lot of stuff and my violin on my back, I tripped on something on the sidewalk and fell. Injured my chin badly and had to get stitches. My recital actually went very well, I so enjoyed it and was very focused and in the moment. It was good that my concert wasn’t any later, because I felt much worse in the days after that. I also had other abrasions and injuries and my body felt in a kind of shock. Now I’m mostly recovered. Anyway I thought I’d put a few things here from the last month because it was a lot of good times otherwise! 1 yesterday 2-5 FSU/Florida 6-7 Scott Wollschleger recording at Oktaven and MSM seminar with Karl Larson 8-9 before concert with Tongyu Lu at Merkin Hall 10 David Sanford at rehearsal of his piece Reprise Concerts to come!!

I’m very grateful for this year of performing and collaborating in 2023. Happy and feeling great remembering these concerts! Some highlights in 10 photos: - I released my album Világ with the Bartók Solo Sonata and works by @stewartgoodyear78 @aida.shirazi.composer Manfred Stahnke & Franco Donatoni, on the Urlicht label @musical.concepts (photo from recording session 2022) - with @runningamoc friends, worked and performed with @ensemble.connect at @carnegiehall - my org Nunc did a residency at Williams College and played music by @scott.wollschleger @galaflagello @mpisaroliu & Ileana Perez Velasquez - “the echoing of tenses” at @92ndstreety - song cycle by @anthonyscheung on texts by Asian poets, with @paulapplebytenor @runningamoc - played duo with Ethan Iverson @everynoteistrue and got a great NY Times review. Music by Walker, Talma, Lieberson 📷 Michelle V. Agins - at @ps21chatham playing Stravinsky, Saunders, Boulanger with pianist Eric Huebner and @sandiacr 📷 Stephen Taylor - music of Morton Feldman with @conorlhanick at @ny_studioschool - six-concert recital tour in Germany, music by Reiko Füting, Bach, Biber, Ysaÿe @tongyu_lu_ and more - @sfperformances with @pianoblair playing Janacek, Beethoven, Prokofiev, Finney, Cheung - performing Georg Friedrich Haas Violin Concerto No. 2 with @rso.wien and @markus.poschner at @musikverein.wien Cheers to all friends, organizations, and presenters I worked with, to all AMOC projects that happened this year, and to my students!

A highlight of life so far for me, for sure, playing Georg Friedrich Haas’ gorgeous concerto, written for me and dedicated to my grandfather, at the @musikverein.wien ! Thank you again to everyone! Georg is a truly amazing composer of vivid emotional expression, a master craftsman with the elements of music, all in a balance of sophistication and simplicity. Congrats to him on a remarkable series of concerts there featuring his compositions! I’m profoundly grateful to have been given a work to play that is so musically rich and deeply rewarding, related to the Berg Violin Concerto and expanded into microtonality and a form for the modern story in sound that Georg wanted to tell. He agreed it was indeed my best performance of it yet :) Thank you and congrats to the wonderful musicians of @rso.wien and terrific conductor @markus.poschner ! It was a great collaboration. The recording is up on @oe1 for another day or two. Thanks also to Die Presse for the review. It said “Miranda Cuckson is a poetic soloist with a strong personality, yet unpretentious." The hall was full and responded with warmth and close attentiveness. My goal as a performer is always to uplift listeners emotionally and spiritually, in some way. [Uplifting doesn’t necessarily mean lofty or religious. It can mean just improving people’s mood, or actually dealing with difficult emotions or situations, or providing a paradigm-shifting experience.] I also greatly enjoyed the masterclass with RSO academy violinists, who played Mozart, Tchaikovsky and Bach. And hearing Georg’s piece “Joshua Tree” with the Vienna Symphony that evening. Cheers to Vienna for the superb music and friendliness, the picturesque holiday festivity in the snow, and the plum cake, chocolate and schnitzels. Again despite current global tensions and tendencies, I felt the city turned outward and both historic and modern again in its melting pot way. 💗