Kurt Baldwin has been a cello teacher at the University of Missouri, St. Louis, where he is a faculty member, along with his colleagues at Arianna String Quartet since 2000. As a founding member of Arianna String Quartet in 1992, Mr. Baldwin was awarded the Grand Prix in the Fischoff Contest, Coleman Contest and Carmel Contest, and was awarded the Bordeaux International String Quartet Competition in 1999.
With ASQ, Baldwin performed on five continents, was heard on live radio broadcasts in thirty-five countries and NPR’s “Performance Today” and recorded for the classic label Albany and Urtext. As part of a long-term deal with Centaur Records, the Arianna quartet made critically acclaimed recordings of the Janacek string quartets and Beethoven’s full string quartets. Mr. Baldwin is a faculty member of the International Cello Institute (MN), the Arianna Chamber Music Festival (STL), the Femusc Festival in Brazil, the Madeline Island Chamber Music Festival (WI) and the Credo Festival (OH).
Kurt received his bachelor’s degree in music from the San Francisco Conservatory as a student of Irene Sharp and earned a master’s degree in music from NEC, where he was a student of Bernard Greenhouse. Mr. Baldwin also has a Northern Illinois University artist certificate, where he studied with Marc Johnson and the Vermeer quartet.