Daniel Hamin Go - Private Classes

Daniel Hamin Go
Cello Faculty | The Global Conservatory

Daniel Hamin Go is a Korean-Canadian cellist, recording artist, and educator with an international career spanning performance, chamber music, and elite conservatory-level teaching. Based in Canada, he brings over fourteen years of dedicated teaching experience alongside an active global performing and recording profile.

Daniel has appeared in major concert halls across three continents, including the Berliner Philharmonie, Carnegie Hall, Cadogan Hall, Flagey Studios, and the Konzerthaus Berlin. A highly sought-after chamber musician, he has participated in leading festivals such as IMS Prussia Cove, Kronberg Academy, Krzyżowa Music, Tsinandali Festival, Yellow Barn, and Four Seasons, collaborating with artists including Jonathan Biss, Glenn Dicterow, Miriam Fried, Ida Kavafian, Rachel Podger, Fazil Say, and Jean-Claude Vanden Eynden.

His education spans six institutions across five countries, reflecting a deeply international artistic formation. Daniel holds degrees and fellowships from the Manhattan School of Music, Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin, the Royal Academy of Music, the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel (Artist-in-Residence), and the Royal Conservatory of Music’s prestigious Rebanks Family Fellowship and International Residency Program. His mentors include Steven Isserlis, Gary Hoffman, David Geber, Julia Lichten, and Rita Wagner.

As an educator, Daniel has maintained a private studio for over a decade, teaching students aged 6 through professional level. His former students have gone on to study at institutions such as UdK Berlin, Hochschule für Musik Hamburg, Hanover, Essen, and the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London. He currently works closely with the Royal Conservatory of Music’s Glenn Gould School, Taylor Academy, and Oscar Peterson School, where he coaches, mentors, and leads sectional work, and he has given masterclasses across Canada.

In 2025, Daniel released his debut album ARIRANG on Orchid Classics, supported by the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council. He is a recipient of numerous awards, including First Prize at the France National Music Competition and major national arts grants. Daniel performs on an Antonio & Raffaele Gagliano cello (Naples, ca. 1830), generously on loan from CANIMEX.

At The Global Conservatory, Daniel teaches Intermediate through Professional cellists, offering private lessons and masterclasses focused on cello technique, audition and competition preparation, advanced practice methodology, chamber music, and the professional realities of a modern classical career. His teaching is structured, physically informed, and analytically rigorous, aimed at developing independent, resilient, and artistically complete musicians.