The Miró Quartet is one of America’s most celebrated string quartets, praised as "furiously committed" by The New Yorker and recognized for its "exceptional tonal focus and interpretive intensity" by the Cleveland Plain Dealer. For nearly 30 years, the GRAMMY®-nominated quartet has performed on the world’s most prestigious concert stages, earning accolades from critics and audiences alike. Based in Austin, TX, and thriving on the area’s storied music scene, the Miró takes pride in finding new ways to communicate with audiences of all backgrounds while cultivating the longstanding tradition of chamber music.

Daniel Ching, a founding member of the Miró Quartet, began his violin studies at the age of 3 under tutelage of his father. 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. At the age of 10, Daniel was first introduced to string quartet playing and its vast repertoire. A graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Daniel studied violin with Kathleen Winkler, Roland 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. Daniel 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.

Mr. Fleming holds the degrees of Doctor of Musical Arts, Artist Diploma, and Master of Music from the Juilliard School, a Postgraduate Diploma with Distinction from the Royal Academy of Music in London, and a Bachelor of Music summa cum laude from Louisiana State University. He is represented with the Manhattan Chamber Players by Arts Management Group.

Canadian-American Violinist William Fedkenheuer is a two-time Grammy-nominee and the newly appointed incoming Artistic Director of the Toronto Summer Music festival. Originally from Calgary, Alberta, Will is celebrated internationally as a performer, educator, and arts consultant, Will brings more than 25 years of experience at the highest levels of chamber music, including his work with the Miró, Fry Street, and Borromeo String Quartets.

He has performed on many of the world’s most prestigious stages—from Carnegie Hall and Esterházy Castle to Suntory Hall and the Library of Congress—and collaborated with renowned artists such as Leon Fleisher, Audra McDonald, Yo-Yo Ma, Dawn Upshaw, Wu Man, Sasha Cooke, Midori, Caroline Shaw, and Kevin Puts. His discography includes the Grammy-nominated albums Home and House of Belonging, as well as a benchmark Beethoven cycle with the Miró Quartet on Pentatone.

Violist John Largess began his studies in Boston at age 12 in the public schools, studying with Michael Zaretsky of the Boston Symphony, and later as a student of Michael Tree at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. In 1995, he graduated from Yale University to join the Colorado String Quartet as interim violist. He toured the United States and Canada with the quartet, teaching and concertizing. The following year, Mr. Largess was appointed Principal Violist of the Charleston Symphony Orchestra in South Carolina, a position he held until joining the Miró Quartet to take part in the Eighth International String Quartet Competition at the Banff Centre for the Arts in Alberta, Canada, in 1997. Also an active speaker and writer about all things chamber-musical, he was invited to give a week-long audience lecture series at the Banff Competition in 2004; he repeated this series in 2007 and again in 2010.

The Miró Quartet is celebrating 30 years of making music together, a testament to their artistry and dedication. Cellist Joshua Gindele, a founding member of the Miró Quartet, began his cello studies at the age of 3, playing a viola his teacher had ingeniously fitted with an endpin. As cellist for the Miró, Josh has taken first prizes at several national and international competitions, including the Banff International String Quartet Competition and the Naumburg Chamber Music Competition. In 2005, the Miró Quartet made history as the first ensemble ever to be awarded the coveted Avery Fisher Career Grant.

Josh has shared the stage with some of the classical world's most legendary artists, including Yo-Yo Ma, The New York Philharmonic, Pinchas Zuckerman, Joshua Bell, Midori, Andre Watts, and Menahem Pressler. He continues to perform across four continents on some of the world's most prestigious concert stages.