Founding member of the Miró Quartet, Daniel Ching began his violin studies at the age of 3 under tutelage of his father to continue at the San Francisco Conservatory Preparatory Division, where he studied with Serban Rusu and Zaven Melikian, and chamber music with Susan Bates.
A graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, he studied violin with Kathleen Winkler and Roland and Almita Vamos. He completed his Masters degree at the Cleveland Institute of Music, where he studied with former Cleveland Quartet violinist Donald Weilerstein. He also studied recording engineering and production with Thomas Knab of Telarc, and subsequently engineered the Miró Quartet’s first promotional disc.
M. Ching is currently on faculty at the University of Texas at Austin Butler School of Music where he teaches private violin students and coaches chamber music.