Thomas Kraines

Thomas Kraines is a versatile cellist, composer, and teacher. He performs with the Network for New Music Ensemble, the experimental ensemble Unseen Rain, the jazz quartet Two Wings Two Biscuits, the ARCX Quartet, and the improvisation collective People’s Music Supply. He is a former member of the Daedalus Quartet and the Peabody Trio. Thomas teaches cello at the University of Pennsylvania, where he also directs the chamber music program, and at Philadelphia’s Settlement Music School. He has led masterclasses in creative music and improvisation at many schools including the Longy School, University of Pennsylvania, and University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Thomas graduated from the Curtis Institute of Music and the Juilliard School, and studied cello with Frederic Raimi, Orlando Cole, and Joel Krosnick, and composition with Tom Benjamin.