About the NCCP Players
Miki-Sophia Cloud
Violin
Guest Artist
From the age of five, Miki-Sophia Cloud studied violin in the Washington DC area with Rhonda Cole and Ricardo Cyncynates. By adolescence, her playing began receiving regional and national attention, culminating in solo performances with several orchestras, and a performance at Boston Symphony Hall on NPR, for which she received a special audience prize.
In 2000, Cloud took a hiatus from her violin studies to complete her undergraduate degree at Harvard University, where she pursued joint studies in English literature and music composition, creating an original chamber opera based on the work of William Blake for her honors thesis, which she also conducted and produced.
Following graduation, Harvard College awarded Cloud the prestigious George Peabody Gardner Fellowship, which allowed her to study violin from 2004-2006 at the Universitaet fuer Musik in Vienna, with Vienna Philharmonic Principal Concertmaster Rainer Kuechl.
Always a versatile and curious musician, the past year has found Cloud giving performances ranging from the first movement of Mozart’s G Major violin concerto with her own cadenza in the "Vienna Hall" of the Salzburg Mozarteum during the Mozart festival, to a concert of new music at John Zorn’s "The Stone" in New York’s East Village.
Currently, Cloud is a masters student of Ani Kavafian at the Yale School of Music, and continues to perform in the Boston and New York areas.