About

Cellist Daniel Lim is a Los Angeles-based cellist with a versatile career in performance, music education, and production.

In 2022 he co-founded and is currently cellist/lead arranger of wholesoul, a Hip-Hop String Quartet with attitude. As featured by Strings Magazine, WQXR, and The NAMM Show, wholesoul represents a new era of string quartets and how string quartets make music in the 21st century. Performing unique original arrangements that seek to explore the bounds beyond classical music, wholesoul has recorded for Hozier’s album “Unreal Unearth”, collaborated with artists such as Grent Perez and Bad Snacks, and has performed for notable brands such as Meta, Walmart, NBCUniversal, Shondaland, and The Los Angeles Dodgers.  

He is also currently cellist/arranger of Splntrd Wood, a cello quartet whose mission is to “create fresh live music experiences that cross divides between musical genres”. In 2020 its debut album De Lá Pra Cá, celebrating the music of Latin America was featured in ASCAP’s New Music Friday playlist, and has performed at Sundays Live at LACMA Bing Theater, Massivemuse, and The Medieval Music of the Dales Festival in Yorkshire, England. The group has collaborated with musicians such as Maria Da Barros and has premiered original works by composers Reena Esmail and Mark Carlson.

In addition to his performance schedule, Daniel is a passionate and dedicated educator who values the importance of music education. As a participant in the Cleveland Institute of Music’s Suzuki Method Pedagogy Program, he received official certification of the Suzuki Cello Method Instructor and his students have participated in programs such as the Colburn Chamber Orchestra, Colburn Chamber Music Program, Junior Chamber Music, Pasadena Youth Symphony Orchestra, SCSBOA All Southern Orchestra and Glendale Youth Symphony, while also receiving The Music Teachers Association of California Certificate of Merit. He has also worked for non-profit organizations such as Harmony Project, American Youth Symphony Share-a-Stand program, and Education through Music LA.

Born and raised in Los Angeles, Daniel holds degrees from the New England Conservatory and the Cleveland Institute of Music; his mentors include Joon Sung Jun, Yeesun Kim, Stephen Geber, and Robert DeMaine.