Always on an adventure, violinist Miki-Sophia Cloud indulges her musical wanderlust with an itinerary that is constantly challenging, varied, and fresh. As a soloist, she has appeared at the Kennedy Center and Boston Symphony Hall, the Salzburg Mozarteum, and on National Public Radio. Recent performances include Barber’s Violin Concerto under Maestro Peter Oundjian, Berio duets with Ani and Ida Kavafian at Lincoln Center, Bach’s Concerto for Two Violins with Curtis Macomber, and a debut at the 2009 Bang on a Can Marathon in New York City. Always a passionate chamber musician, Miki was recently appointed the new violinist for the North Country Chamber Players, the first appointment of the group’s “new generation” of members. Her drive to support talented young composers has led Miki to give frequent premieres and performances of new works, several of which have been written for her. Outside the purely classical realm, she also performs with the free jazz/art rock nonet “Your Bad Self” and is known to shed some bluegrass fiddle from time to time.
A graduate of Harvard College, where she earned a double degree in English Literature and Music, Miki was awarded the George Peabody Gardner fellowship upon graduation, which granted her the opportunity to study at the University for Music and Performing Arts in Vienna with Philharmonic Concertmaster Rainer Küchl. Miki recently completed her master’s studies with Ani Kavafian at the Yale School of Music, where she won first prize in the Concerto Competition and served as a concertmaster of the Yale Philharmonia. She is currently a doctoral candidate under Miriam Fried at the New England Conservatory of Music. The lone crier residing in Cambridge, Miki happily tinkers in the kitchen whenever at home, feeding her gracious husband and friends all of her experiments.