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Daedalus Quartet

The DAEDALUS QUARTET was founded in the summer of 2000, and captured the Grand Prize of the 2001 Banff International String Quartet competition, quickly establishing itself among America's outstanding string quartets. The members of the Daedalus Quartet hold degrees from the Juilliard School, Curtis Institute, Cleveland Institute, and Harvard University. Founding members violinist Min-Young Kim and cellist Raman Ramakrishnan grew up in East Patchogue, Long Island; they met violist Jessica Thompson at the Marlboro Festival. Violinist Ara Gregorian joined the Daedalus Quartet in early March, 2010. Daedalus has been Columbia University's Quartet-in-Residence since 2005, and Quartet-in-Residence at the University of Pennsylvania since 2006. In 2007, the Quartet was awarded Lincoln Center's Martin E. Segal Award. The Quartet won Chamber Music America's Guarneri String Quartet Award. Daedalus Quartet has performed in many of the world's leading musical venues; in the United States and Canada these include Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Library of Congress, the Corcoran Gallery in D.C., and Boston's Gardner Museum, as well as on major series in Montreal, Toronto, Calgary, Winnipeg, and Vancouver. Abroad the ensemble has been heard in such famed locations as the Musikverein in Vienna, the Mozarteum in Salzburg, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, and the Cite de la Musique in Paris. www.besenarts.com/daedalus/

Program: Gaspar Cassado: Piano Trio in C Major; Shostakovich: Piano Trio No. 2 in e minor, Op. 67; Ravel: Piano Trio in A