Miranda Cuckson

Violinist Miranda Cuckson focuses on contemporary music and has had music written for her by an unusually wide range of composers, from Philip Glass to Luigi Nono. Cuckson received her doctorate in 2003 after writing a dissertation on composer Ross Lee Finney. By that time, Cuckson had already begun her recording career, issuing a recording of violin concertos by Manuel Ponce and Erich Wolfgang Korngold with the Czech National Symphony Orchestra. Cuckson's repertory includes works of all periods, but she has emphasized contemporary music in her performances and recordings. She issued the solo violin recital Világ in 2023. By that time, her recording catalog comprised nearly 20 albums. Cuckson teaches violin and chamber music at the Mannes School of Music at New School University in New York.