His father, Iwan (Ywan) D'Archambeau[1] (Herve, Belgium, 1879 - Villefranche-sur-Mer, France, 29 December 1955), was the cellist of the Flonzaley Quartet, which enjoyed an international reputation for more than twenty-five years during the 1920s and 30s.
D'Archambeau worked with many noted musicians, including Arturo Toscanini, Pablo Casals, Jacques Thibaud, Nadia Boulanger and Fritz Kreisler, who bequeathed him the famous Daniel Parker[2] "the Kreisler", London, c. 1715, violin.
D’Archambeau was presented in the US regularly by W. Hazaiah Williams, the founder and director of "Today’s Artists Concerts/Four Seasons Arts", beginning in 1980 and again in 1986 with a San Francisco recital for unaccompanied violin.
He later performed again in Weill Hall with violist Amadi Azikiwe[5] and pianist Dennis Helmrich.
[6] From 1985 through 2012, Mr. D’Archambeau was artist-in-residence at "Four Seasons Arts’ Yachats Music Festival" on the Oregon coast.