Raman Ramakrishnan
cello

Cellist Raman Ramakrishnan is a member of the Daedalus Quartet, winner of the 2001 Banff International String Quartet Competition. With the quartet, he 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 was in residence at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center from 2005 until 2007, and is currently in residence at Columbia University and at the University of Pennsylvania.
Raman has given solo recitals in New York, Boston, Seattle, and Washington, D.C., and has performed chamber music on Caramoor’s “Rising Stars” series, at Bargemusic, and at the Marlboro, Bravo! Vail, Charlottesville, Lincolnshire (UK), Mehli Mehta (India), OK Mozart, and Four Seasons Chamber Music Festivals. He has toured with Musicians from Marlboro and has performed frequently with the Zankel Band, 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 was born in Athens, Ohio and grew up in East Patchogue, New York. His father is a molecular biologist and his mother is the children's book author and illustrator Vera Rosenberry. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in physics from Harvard University and a Master’s from The Juilliard School. His principal teachers have been Fred Sherry, Andrés Díaz, and André Emelianoff. His cello was made in Cremona, Italy in 1996 by Edson Puozzo. He lives in New York City with his wife, the violist Melissa Reardon.