Yves Dharamraj
Cello

Throughout his career, YVES DHARAMRAJ has developed a reputation as a dynamic cellist who blends an immaculate command of the instrument with deep musical understanding to express his fresh artistic interpretations. Regarded as “a strikingly mature and gifted musician” (Edmonton Sun), the young Franco-American cellist enjoys a career that takes him to major venues across the United States and abroad. At the age of 16, Mr. Dharamraj made his professional concerto debut performing Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations with the Florida Orchestra under the baton of Thomas Wilkins. Met with critical acclaim, the cellist has since been recognized as one of the next generation’s leading artists. As part of the Juilliard School’s Centennial Celebration, he was invited to perform William Schuman’s A Song of Orpheus at Avery Fisher Hall with James DePriest and the Juilliard Orchestra. Other appearances with orchestra include performances with the Houston Symphony, Edmonton Symphony, Green Bay Symphony and the Atlantic Classical Orchestra, among others.

Mr. Dharamraj’s festival appearances include La Jolla’s Summerfest, i Palpiti, Music@Menlo, Canada’s National Arts Centre, Steans Institute at Ravinia, Banff Centre for the Arts, Sarasota Music Festival, and the Museum of Modern Art’s Summergarden. He made his radio broadcast solo debut on WFMT 98.7 FM Chicago on the Dame Myra Hess Series. The cellist was chosen to attend the Perlman Music Program’s inaugural season and recently had the honor of collaborating with the world-renowned violinist Itzhak Perlman at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium.

Yves Dharamraj explores the rich chamber music repertoire as a founding member of the Moët Trio. He has collaborated with members of the Orion, Cleveland, Guarneri and Tokyo Quartets and with Miriam Fried with “Musicians from Ravinia.” He has performed in Jordan Hall, the Kennedy Center, 92nd St Y, and Carnegie’s Weill and Zankel Halls. He performs regularly in France, recently toured Japan, and had the diplomatic honor of performing and teaching in Thailand in celebration of HRH Princess Galyani Vadhana’s seventh cycle birthday.

In addition, Mr. Dharamraj belongs to Ne(x)tworks, a cutting-edge group of performing composers, and has toured with the Grammy Award-nominated Yale Cellos. His discography includes the works of Earle Brown with Ne(x)tworks (Mode), the chamber music of Valentin Silvestrov (Koch), and the music of Dave Brubeck with the Yale Cellos (Naxos).

Mr. Dharamraj has won top prizes in the Ima Hogg, Klein, Juilliard, and Florida Orchestra Competitions. He has presented himself in master class with Yo-Yo Ma, Bernard Greenhouse, William Pleeth, Frans Helmerson, Christoph Eschenbach, Gary Hoffman, Gilbert Kalish, Claude Frank, Pinchas Zukerman, and members of the Beaux Arts Trio and Tokyo, Juilliard, Cleveland, Orion, Emerson and Guarneri String Quartets. Yves Dharamraj began his cello studies at age four and performed in public soon afterward. In 1998 following studies with Mussie Eidelman and Scott Kluksdahl, he matriculated at Yale University where he graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in History, a Master of Music, and an Artist Diploma under the guidance of the renowned pedagogue Aldo Parisot. He further studied in Joel Krosnick and Darrett Adkins’s studio at the Juilliard School as the recipient of the 2004 Victor Herbert Scholarship and the prestigious 2005 C.V. Starr Doctorate of Musical Arts Fellowship. Dharamraj has also worked with Paul Katz at the New England Conservatory as recipient of the Florence Gould Scholarship. He now teaches cello at Juilliard as assistant to Mr. Krosnick.

Dharamraj plays an 1842 Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume cello. In his leisure time he loves to learn about and indulge in great Burgundy and Bordeaux wines and is a passionate supporter of the Chicago Cubs, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and Arsenal FC.