Daryl Giuliano

Biography

Canadian cellist Daryl Giuliano performs internationally as a soloist and chamber musician. She is known for her expressive playing through which she embodies the music. Daryl specialises in romantic and modern repertoire and has worked with many contemporary composers. She also enjoys improvising as part of her performance. Daryl searches to find ways to bring colour and energy to her work through inspiration and collaboration with literature and visual art.

Daryl is a founding member of several chamber ensembles, including her duo with pianist Julia Mametyeva, with whom she transcribed and recorded Rachmaninoff's Op. 38, 6 poems for voice and piano. She also performs with accordionist Iñigo Mikeleiz and as a member of Celia Quartet.

Daryl has had the pleasure to work in masterclasses with Alain Meunier, Ilmari Hopkins, Xenia Jankovic, Peter Nagy, Sandro Meo, Adrian Brendel, Maria Kliegel, Anssi Karttunen, Robert Cohen, Colin Carr, Mihai Tetel, Michel Strauss, Valérie Aimard, Andres Diaz, Jeffrey Solow, Astrid Schween, and Manuel Fischer-Dieskau.

She began her studies at the piano before starting cello at the age of twelve with Glenn Fischbach in the United States. In 2005, Daryl won the Armstrong Atlantic Youth Orchestra's Concerto Competition and performed as soloist with them the following spring. Since that time, she has also appeared as soloist with the Amici Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestre du Conservatoire de Bourg-la-Reine/Sceaux.

Her passion for music brought her to Paris, France to study with Étienne Cardoze and then to London where she received her Master of Music degree in the studio of Felix Schmidt at the Royal Academy of Music. She plays an unknown German cello from 1890.