While remaining very dedicated to the Western classical repertoire, Miranda has emerged as a major champion of contemporary and living composers.
A violinist and violist, she performs at venues large and small, concert halls, and informal spaces. Known for her organic expressivity, dexterous virtuosity, musical insight, brilliant programming, and love for music, she is acclaimed internationally as a soloist and collaborator. Miranda Cuckson delights listeners with her playing of a remarkably wide range of music and styles, from older eras to the newest creations. While these don't draw from the composers' own ethnic cultures, they explore ideas inspired by folk music and un-formalized language." - Miranda Cuckson. I also selected two works, one each by Manfred Stahnke and Franco Donatoni, that I've recently been playing regularly.
Thinking about what the many cultures of the world mean to people today, I chose for this album to program the Bartók Sonata together with pieces I had recently commissioned from my friends: Aida Shirazi, from Iran, and Stewart Goodyear, from Canada. "In my frequent work with composers, I had noticed quite a few drawing upon the music of their native countries - the tunes, native instruments, characteristic rhythms. In Sanskrit, "vilag" means "to cling to" in Hindi, "separated". It also resembles the word "village" in English. Világ is a Hungarian word meaning "world" or "illumination".
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