Cellist Raman Ramakrishnan is a member of the Daedalus Quartet, winners of the 2001 Banff International String Quartet Competition. The quartet has performed coast to coast in the United States and Canada, in Japan and Panama, and across Europe on a tour developed by the European Concert Halls Organization, which also provided for a Carnegie Hall debut. The quartet is in residence at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center from 2005 until 2007, and at Columbia University starting in 2005. Raman has given solo recitals in New York and Boston and performed chamber music at Alice Tully Hall, for Caramoor’s “Rising Stars” series, at Bargemusic, and at the Marlboro, Bravo! Vail, Charlottesville, Lincolnshire, Mehli Mehta, and Four Seasons Chamber Music Festivals.

He has toured with Musicians from Marlboro and performed frequently with the Metamorphosen Chamber Orchestra, the International Sejong Soloists, the East Coast Chamber Orchestra, and the contemporary chamber group Proteus, which made its Carnegie Hall debut in 2001. As a member of Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble, he has collaborated with musicians from the Iraqi National Symphony Orchestra and performed in New Delhi and Agra, India and in Cairo, Egypt. Raman holds a Bachelor’s degree with honors in physics from Harvard University and a Master’s from The Juilliard School.

His principal teachers have been Fred Sherry, Andrés Diaz, and André Emelianoff.