Studio-Phoenix Blogspot: Miranda Cuckson: Where words leave off

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text & visual augmentation by K.K.W

Miranda Cuckson: Where words leave off. Article & photos by K.K.W

At various point's one comes to find an amazing form of talent that speaks beyond the everyday barriers. When you listen to Miranda's playing on Erich Korngold: Violin Concerto 1 & 2, this becomes abundantly clear.

"Where words leave off.." @ The Italian Academy
3/4/12.

Miranda Cuckson is a violinist and violist who is highly acclaimed for her performances of a wide range of repertoire. A soloist, chamber musician and composer, she doesn't just play the instrument, she empowers it. Her violin exudes an intensity along with the notes being played, through her great skill, with a passion for music, thats rarely seen.

Watching her during the performance "Where words leave off.."(Ode to Napoleon Bounaparte-Arnold Schoenberg, [1942]string quartet, piano, reciter)she vibrated and swayed with the power of the music. The notes and arrangement of it flowing from her mind, through the violin and out into the audience. You could almost feel the subtle hum of the sound-wave's reverberating through the air. Miranda picks up "Where words leave off..." She becomes a force like the light, illuminating the dim-dark, and stuffy realm of man; and we, no more then flowers in need of her light, without which we might shrivel up and die in the dark.

On Beethoven Sonata op.96 for violin and piano I Allegro Moderato, she causes the music to swim inside you, keep you spellbound and following every delicate note. The strings of her violin exuding joy and sorrow the likes of which many of us have never known. To listen to her play is to be @ peace. In another time it was said that "all the worlds a stage..." if this is true, Miranda Cuckson is one of the finest to grace the stage that is today.

The performance "Where words leave off..." featured the pieces, Dal Niente(Interieur III)-Helmut Lachenmann, 1970[Clarinet], Fragmente-Stille, an Diotima-Luigi Nono, 1979[string quartet], and Ode to Napoleon Bounaparte-Arnold Schoenberg, 1942[string quartet, piano, reciter].

Miranda Cuckson is a member of the musical collective "Counter)Induction" and is a major supporter of new musical compositions in classical. At the age of 9 she began her studies at The Juilliard School, and went on there to receive her BM, MM, and DMA degrees. As winner of Juilliards presser music award, she made her recital debut at Carnegie Halls Weill Hall.

If you would like to know more or listen, go to:www.mirandacuckson.com/about/, "Art is the reason, art is the way"