Friday Night Live! Miranda Cuckson and Blair McMillan

Violinist Miranda Cuckson, who teaches at the Mannes School of Music at The New School, is as comfortable with Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber’s 17th-century solo sonatas as she is with Georg Friedrich Haas’s prismatic, microtonal Violin Concerto No. 2—written for her in 2017. 

Blair McMillen, a professor at Bard College, has also explored a wide range of repertoire, from William Bolcom’s lyrical Graceful Ghost to Annie Gosfield’s wildly inventive Brooklyn, October 5, 1941, a work for piano and tennis balls. Together, Cuckson and McMillen have performed and recorded several modern American masterpieces, demonstrating a remarkable breadth of taste and technique.

For this performance, the duo will present works by Sergei Prokofiev, Ludwig van Beethoven, Lili Boulanger, Ross Lee Finney, and Eleanor Alberga.