Cellist Angela Park joins the Philadelphia-based ensemble
The Daedalus Quartet has announced the appointment of Angela Park as its new cellist, having made her debut with the ensemble on 19 July at the Music Mountain Summer Music Festival in Falls Village, CT, US. She joins violinists Min-Young Kim and Matilda Kaul and violist Jessica Thompson, assuming the role from cellist Tom Kraines.
‘We are grateful to Tom Kraines for 14 fulfilling years of playing together, and thank him for being a driving force behind many of our most rewarding and innovative projects,’ the quartet said. ‘We wish him all the best as he embarks on the next chapter of his career.’
Park currently serves on the cello and chamber music faculties at the Carnegie Mellon University School of Music in Pittsburgh. She is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, New England Conservatory, Universität der Künste Berlin, and studied Baroque cello at the Hochschule für Musik Frankfurt. Her teachers have included Peter Wiley, Orlando Cole, Laurence Lesser and Jens Peter Maintz.
As a soloist, she has performed with orchestras including the Philadelphia Orchestra, Seoul Philharmonic, Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra and the Korean Broadcasting System Orchestra. As a chamber musician, she has performed at the Verbier, Ravinia and Marlboro festivals, collaborating with artists including Leonidas Kavakos, Kim Kashkashian and Miriam Fried.
The Daedalus Quartet was established in 2000 and rose to prominence when it won the grand prize of the 2001 Banff International String Quartet Competition. It has performed at top US venues including the Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, the Library of Congress, as well as abroad at concert halls including Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw and Vienna’s Musikverein.
It has served as the quartet-in-residence at the University of Pennsylvania since 2006.
‘We are thrilled to welcome Angela Park to the Daedalus Quartet,’ the ensemble announced. ‘From our first sessions together, it was clear that her artistry, musical curiosity, and deep commitment to the chamber music repertoire are an extraordinary match for the ensemble. We can’t wait to share this new chapter with our audiences.’
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