Co-founder & Cellist Danielle Cho is Assistant Principal Cellist of the Washington National Opera and also performs regularly with the National Symphony Orchestra. Dedicated to bringing music outside of the concert hall, she has performed and taught in marginalized communities in Argentina, Costa Rica, Haiti and Panama. As soloist, she has performed with the Erie Chamber Orchestra and the Festival Filharmonic Juvenil (Argentina).
After studying in Barcelona as a Fulbright Scholar, she was invited to play with the Orquesta de la Comunitat Valencia where she toured internationally under Lorin Maazel and Zubin Mehta. She was a featured soloist at the 2014 TedxFulbright Conference and the first Fulbright alumni to be selected to serve on two missions with the Youth Orchestra of the Americas (YOA) Global Leaders Program.
She has participated in many festivals in Europe and the US including IMS Prussia Cove, Spoleto, Music in May, the Holland Music Sessions, Taos, Sarasota, Schleswig-Holstein and the New York String Seminar. Danielle is a graduate of the USC Thornton School of Music and the New England Conservatory.
In her spare time, Danielle enjoys boxing, hiking and photography.