DATE: May 7 2006, 3 PM

SITE: The Progress Energy (formerly BTI) Center for the Performing Arts   Map 

PROGRAM

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

The Daedalus Quartet takes its name from the mythical Greek inventor, artist, and architect celebrated for creating the art of sculpture, designing the Labyrinth, and above all for regaining his freedom by devising wings that made it possible for him to fly. The Daedalus Quartet (pronounced DED-a-lus), was founded in the summer of 2000 at the Marlboro Music Festival. One year later the quartet was the Grand Prize Winner of the 2001 Banff International String Quartet Competition, and it has quickly established itself as among America’s outstanding string quartets and one of the most in-demand young ensembles performing today.

The Quartet performed 50 concerts during the 2003-2004 season, including recitals in New York, Washington, Los Angeles, Chicago, Baltimore, Detroit, Providence, Philadelphia, and the Republic of Panama. They also served as the Ernst Stiefel Quartet in Residence at the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, and performed Erwin Schulhoff’s Concerto for String Quartet with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. During the 2002-2003 season, the Daedalus Quartet performed coast-to-coast in Canada, including major series in Montreal, Toronto, Ottawa, Calgary, Winnipeg, and Vancouver, as well as Japan.

The Daedalus Quartet has been selected by Carnegie Hall to participate in the ECHO (European Concert Hall Organization) Rising Stars program, through which it will make debuts during the 2004-2005 season at the Philharmonie (Cologne), the Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), the Musikverein (Vienna), the Mozarteum (Salzburg), Symphony Hall (Birmingham), the Palais des Beaux Arts (Brussels), the Megaron (Athens), the Cite de la Musique (Paris), as well as a presentation by Carnegie Hall as part of its “Distinctive Debuts” series at Weill Recital Hall. Other highlights of the coming season include the premiere of a new work by David Horne at the Caramoor Festival, and recitals for the Houston Friends of Music, Stanford Lively Arts, the La Jolla Music Society, Music in the Park (St. Paul), and a re-engagement by the Chamber Music Society of the North Shore in Chicago, as well as a residency for the Friends of Chamber Music in Kansas City. They have also been given the distinct honor of performing the opening program of the Library of Congress’s 2005-2006 season; the program will include a collaboration with Donald Weilerstein (on viola) in one of Mozart’s string quintets.

The Daedalus Quartet has been named by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center to be the Chamber Music Society Two string quartet for the 2005-2006 and 2006-2007 seasons. As a member of Chamber Music Society Two, the quartet will by invited by the Society to perform on numerous occasions at Lincoln Center, including its own concerts, and concerts in collaboration with artist members of the Society, and other Chamber Music Society Two artists. The quartet will also participate in many of the Society’s educational programs. The Daedalus Quartet has also been a recipient of a residency grant from Chamber Music America.

The Daedalus Quartet has coached with Robert Mann, Donald Weilerstein, and Peter Salaff; its members hold degrees from Juilliard, Curtis, the Cleveland Institute, and Harvard University. Brother and sister violinists Kyu-Young Kim and Min-Young Kim, who alternate on first violin, and cellist Raman Ramakrishnan grew up in East Patchogue, Long Island; they met violist Jessica Thompson, a Minneapolis native, at the Marlboro Festival.

Artist Website: Daedalus Quartet