Music I Am #10 – Miranda Cuckson, violin
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The moment when you knew you wanted to be a musician:
There wasn’t a moment but since I was a young kid I always loved playing the violin and music, always was eager to play. And by the time I was 11 or 12, music was clearly a huge part of my life.
An important skill for a career in music that does not have anything to do with an instrument or making music:
Keep learning and keep rethinking (even if you come back to the same)
Two ways you stay motivated:
1) the world is big and life is big, wherever you look from – there is always something else to explore and learn or something to go back to again
2) Stay true to myself and what I want at any given time with my music-making, not behave a certain way so that I’m limited by anyone’s expectations. I want to be a full, complex person with a genuine perspective.
Latest album or recording project:
Világ – Bartók solo violin sonata and new solo pieces by Manfred Stahnke, Aida Shirazi, Franco Donatoni, and Stewart Goodyear.
What inspired it:
Bartók and the many cultures of the world and how those cultures are meaningful to people nowadays.
Who’s on it:
me and composers Béla Bartók, Aida Shirazi, Stewart Goodyear, Manfred Stahnke
How do you discover new music?
I’ll check out one thing I know about or heard about, then one thing leads to another and another and another…
One living and one dead musician that deserves more attention:
Dead: violinist Erica Morini (she was quite celebrated but seems rarely mentioned now). I don’t love everything she did but she was a major artist. Living: I’ll just say be aware of and listen to NewMusicUSA’s Counterstream radio. They are connected with the community of American music and they play things you might know or not be familiar with.
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