THE FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY College of Music presents the
21st Biennial Festival of New Music Guest Artist Concert (IV) Miranda Cuckson, Violin featuring works by
Morton Feldman Georg Friedrich Haas György Kurtág Tongyu Lu Rebecca Saunders Scott Wollschleger
Friday, February 2, 2024 7:30 p.m. | Opperman Music Hall
PROGRAM Spring of Chosroes (1977)
David Kalhous, piano
de terrae fine (2001) Tre Pezzi (1979)
Georg Friedrich Haas
David Kalhous, piano
The Sounds of Sand (2023) Duo (1999)
Morton Feldman
György Kurtág
Tongyu Lu
David Kalhous, piano
Secret Machine No. 7 (2023)
Rebecca Saunders
Scott Wollschleger
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ABOUT THE ARTISTS Violinist Miranda Cuckson delights audiences internationally as soloist and collaborator in a wide range of music, from older eras to the most current creations. In recent years she has become one of the most acclaimed and passionately committed performers of contemporary music, playing innumerable concerts and premieres of new works and moving new music more into the center of musical life. Upcoming highlights of her 2023/24 season include recitals at San Francisco Performances, Princeton University, Florida State University, and a performance of the Georg Friedrich Hass Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 2 – written for and premiered by Cuckson with the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra – with the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra. Cuckson embarks on a Germany recital tour in October, and performs multiple concerts in New York State including Hudson View Gardens and at PS21: Performance Spaces for the 21st Century. Cuckson released a double album, Világ, in January 2023 featuring a Stewart Goodyear piece, which is a new work written for her. The album also includes the Bartók Solo Sonata and music by Aida Shirazi, Manfred Stahnke, and Franco Donatoni. Venues and festivals have included the Berlin Philharmonie, Suntory Hall, Casa da Musica Porto, Teatro Colón, Guggenheim and Cleveland Museums, Art Institute of Chicago, Strathmore, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra’s Liquid Music series, and the Bard, Marlboro, and Portland Music festivals. She made her Carnegie Hall debut playing Piston’s Violin Concerto No. 1 with the American Symphony Orchestra, and new violin concertos written for her by Haas (in Tokyo, Stuttgart and Porto), and by Marcela Rodriguez in Mexico City. Her acclaimed discography also includes the Korngold and Ponce violin concertos; albums of music of American composers; her ECM Records album of Bartók, Schnittke, and Lutoslawski; Melting the Darkness, an album of pieces by Xenakis, Bianchi, Rowe and more. Her recording of Luigi Nono’s La lontananza nostalgica utopica futura for violin and electronics (Urlicht AV), which was named a Best Recording of 2012 by the New York Times. Miranda Cuckson teaches at the Mannes School of Music at New School University in New York. She studied at The Juilliard School, from Pre-College through her doctorate, and won Juilliard’s Presser Award.
David Kalhous is increasingly gaining recognition and critical acclaim in the United States and Europe for his wideranging repertoire and adventurous programming spanning more than three centuries. He has appeared as a soloist with Prague Symphony Orchestra FOK, Prague Philharmonia, Israel Symphony Orchestra, Moravian Philharmonic, and Chamber Philharmonia Pardubice. As a recitalist and a chamber musician, he performed at the Prague Spring Festival, Gilmore Keyboard Festival, Czech Philharmonic Chamber Music Series, Czech Radio’s Studio Live Rising Stars Series. In New York City, he appears at Bargemusic, Symphony Center, and Spectrum; in Chicago, at PianoForte Foundation and Constellation. Kalhous regularly performs, lectures, and teaches masterclasses at leading American, European, and Israeli universities and conservatories. He has recorded for Czech Radio and Television, and has written, produced, and hosted programs devoted to piano music for Prague’s Classic FM Radio.
David Kalhous’ interest in new music has resulted in collaboration with many composers who have dedicated works to him. He regularly performs with Fonema Consort in Chicago and Konvergence in Prague. He gave the debut performance of Ligeti’s piano Études and Feldman’s For Bunita Marcus in Prague, and is preparing a CD of eight newly commissioned works for piano. David Kalhous studied at the Prague Conservatory with Jaroslav Čermák. He subsequently attended Hochschule für Musik in Vienna, Rubin Academy of Music at Tel-Aviv University, and Yale University, and studied with Paul Badura Skoda, Emil Leichner, Victor Derevianko, David Northington, and Peter Frankl. He also worked with Jerome Lowenthal at the Music Academy of the West. David Kalhous holds a DMA from Northwestern University, where he worked with Ursula Oppens. He previously taught at Texas Tech University School of Music.