He currently teaches at the University of Pennsylvania and the Settlement Music School in Philadelphia. Kraines has served on the faculty of the Longy School of Music, Princeton University, Peabody Conservatory, Phillips Academy Andover, and Yellow Barn. His recent recording of Fred Lerdahl’s solo cello piece, There and Back Again, was released by Bridge Records in February 2020, as part of its survey of Lerdahl’s music. He can also be heard on the recordings of music by Lori Laitman and Bernard Rands, both for Albany Records John Musto, with Music from Copland House and Shulamit Ran, with the Peabody Trio. In February of 2021, he performed his Suite for Two Different Cellos with Kinan Abou-afach as part of an online performance at the Annenberg Center in Philadelphia, and his Hansel and Gretel was recorded by Kenneth Woods and the English Symphony Orchestra, with Henry Goodman narrating.Īs a member of the Daedalus Quartet, Kraines has recorded the music of Joan Tower, Brian Buch, Anna Weesner, Vivian Fung, Fred Lerdahl, and George Perle, among others.
He has performed his own works in collaboration with artists such as Awadagin Pratt, Mimi Stillman, Maria Jette, Ilana Davidson. Kraines’ solo cello and chamber compositions have been heard around the country. He also plays with the Philadelphia-based Network for New Music, the Arcana Ensemble, and the improvisatory ensembles Great Blue Heron and Basquiat Blues. He performs around the world as the cellist of the Daedalus Quartet, and as a member of a duo with his wife, violinist Juliette Kang. Through its global constituency and growing reputation, the orchestra has been invited to perform at the 2003 World Economic Forum in Davos in 2003, while smaller chamber ensembles have performed at the annual meeting of the Nobel Foundation, the International Olympic Committee anniversary, the Swiss Expo.02, the Art 34 Basel art fair, New York's Museum of Modern Art, and at the International Institute of Finance's 2006 spring membership meeting.Īlumni of the orchestra have become members of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Vienna Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, Russian National Orchestra and the Tonhalle Orchestra in Zurich.įor more information, visit Kraines, a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music and the Juilliard School, has gained renown as a versatile cellist, composer, and teacher. Such soloists as Leif Ove Andsnes, Bryn Terfel and Vadim Repin have also appeared with the orchestra. Membership changes annually by audition and this year's musicians come from more than 20 countries.Ĭonductors with whom the orchestra has performed include Herbert Blomstedt, James Levine and Mstislav Rostropovich. Touring every November, the orchestra comprises over 100 musicians aged 17 to 29 and trains during the summer in Switzerland as the orchestra-in-residence at the Verbier Festival and Academy. The tour's European leg commences on November 19 at Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa, with subsequent performances in Zurich (Tonhalle), Lyon (Opera House) and Dusseldorf (Tonhalle). Traveling to nine cities, the young orchestra first performs on November 8 at Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, and repeats its program over the next week in Houston (Jones Hall), Chicago (Harris Theater) and New York (Avery Fisher Hall).
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