Daniel Ching

violin

Daniel Ching, a founding member of the Miró Quartet, began his violin studies at the age of three under tutelage of his father. At age five, 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. At age 10, Mr. Ching was first introduced to string quartet playing and its vast repertoire. A graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Mr. Ching studied violin with Kathleen Winkler, Roland Vamos, and Almita Vamos, and conducting with Robert Spano and Peter Jaffe. He completed his Master of Music degree at 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.

Mr. Ching is on the faculty at the Sarah and Ernest Butler School of Music at the University of Texas at Austin, where he a Professor of Practice in Violin. He concurrently maintains an active international touring schedule as a member of the Miró Quartet.

An avid hiker, Mr. Ching has scaled Mt. Whitney, Mt. Wheeler, Mt. Rundle, and the Grand Canyon. He enjoys his time in the kitchen, obsessively follows his beloved Golden State Warriors and Las Vegas Raiders, loves to ski in the winter, is an avid reader of science fiction, and enjoys cooking for and spending time with his two sons, Adrian and Brian. He lives in Austin with his partner, Jina, and her son, Logan.