DAEDALUS QUARTET'S SOUNDS TO SOAR THROUGH GOODHART

The Daedalus Quartet

The Daedalus Quartet, one of America's most outstanding young string quartets and the 2001 grand prize winner of the Banff International String Quartet Competition, will perform at 8 p.m., on Friday, March 26, in Thomas Great Hall. The performance ends this year's Performing Arts Series.

Tickets are $15 for the general public, $12.50 for senior citizens and Bryn Mawr, Haverford and Swarthmore faculty and staff, and $5 for Tri-College students. For tickets, please call (610) 526-5210.

The concert will include String Quartet in G Major, Op. 77, No. 1 by F.J. Haydn, String Quartet No. 4 by Bela Bartok and String Quartet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 51, No. 1 by Johannes Brahms.

The young chamber ensemble has its roots in a high-school music encounter when violinist siblings Kyu-Young and Min-Young Kim first met cellist Raman Ramakrishnan. The group added violinist and Minneapolis native Jessica Thompson after meeting her at a music festival in 2000. Its name, "Daedalus," comes from Greek mythology. Daedalus, the father of Icarus, notes Kyu-Young Kim, was an inventor, artist and pioneer in flight. He embodied what the ensemble hopes to do, which is to make music to enable both the musicians and their audiences to fly higher, Kim says.

After winning at the 2001 Banff International Sting Quartet Competition, the group began touring to critical acclaim in the United States, Canada and Japan. "… In the hands of such musicians, the future of chamber music looks sunshine bright," said the Toronto Star about the ensemble.

Violinist Min-Young Kim holds degrees from Harvard University and the Juilliard School of Music and is currently on the faculties at Columbia University and the School for the Strings in New York. She has toured across the United States with Musicians from Marlboro, the touring extension of the renowned Marlboro Music Festival in Vermont, and the American Chamber Players; and throughout the Unites States and Europe with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. 

Hailed by the Chicago Tribune for his "flawless musical and technical command," Kyu-Young Kim was educated at the Curtis Institute and the Julliard School. He has been soloist with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, of which he serves as associate concertmaster.

Violist Thompson and cellist Ramakrishnam are both known for their extensive performance work. Thompson, who was educated at the Curtis Institute, was a soloist with the Minnesota Orchestra and spent several summers at the Marlboro Festival. Ramakrishnam, who has given solo recitals in New York and Boston, holds degrees from Harvard and Juilliard.

For more information, please call (610) 526-5210.

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