Artist/Staff Profile: Daniel Ching
Violin
Daniel plays violin with the Miro Quartet. The dynamic Miró Quartet, one of America's highest-profile chamber groups, has risen to the top of the international chamber music scene in only a decade, captivating audiences and critics around the world with i
Daniel Ching, a founding member of the Miró Quartet, spent his childhood years in the San Francisco area, and began playing the violin under the guidance of his father at age 3. At age 5, he entered the San Francisco Conservatory Preparatory Division on a full twelve-year scholarship, where he studied violin with Serban Rusu and Zaven Melikian, and chamber music with Susan Bates. It was during this time at age 10 that Daniel was first introduced to string quartets.
As a student at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music he studied violin with Kathleen Winkler, Roland and Almita Vamos, and conducting with Robert Spano and Peter Jaffe. He holds his M.M. from the Cleveland Institute of Music, where he studied with former Cleveland Quartet violinist Donald Weilerstein. He also studied recording engineering and production with Thomas Knab of Telarc, and subsequently engineered the Miró Quartet's first promotional disc.
Daniel is a discerning connoisseur of all things cinematic and electronic, is an avid skier and a dedicated reader of science fiction. Daniel teaches both violin and chamber music at the University of Texas at Austin, and when he’s not doing that, he can be found lounging at home with his wife Sandy (also a member of the Quartet), their son Adrian, and their two cats, Pon and Poko.
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