Fred Sherry, cello
Cellist Fred Sherry has introduced audiences on five continents and all fifty United States to the music of our time through his close association with such composers as Babbitt, Berio, Carter, Davidovsky, Foss, Knussen, Lieberson, Mackey, Takemitsu, Wuorinen and Zorn. He has been a member of the Group for Contemporary Music, Berio's Juilliard Ensemble, the Galimir String Quartet, and a close collaborator with jazz pianist and composer Chick Corea. Mr. Sherry was a founding member of Speculum Musicae and Tashi. He is on the faculty of the Mannes College of Music, the Manhattan School of Music, and The Juilliard School. In his extensive recording career, he has been soloist and "sideman" on hundreds of commercial and esoteric recordings; his longstanding collaboration with Robert Craft has produced recordings of major works by Schoenberg, Stravinsky, and Webern. In 2001, in collaboration with the Chamber Music Society and Merkin Concert Hall, he created and directed A Great Day in New York, a groundbreaking festival featuring the music of 52 living composers. Mr. Sherry has been an Artist of The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center since 1984 and was its artistic director from 1989 to 1993. This season Fred Sherry turns sixty; there will be celebration concerts at Miller Theatre and the Guggenheim Museum.
Fred Sherry
Upcoming Appearances at Chamber Music Society:
Finnish Voices: 3/16/2010
Great String Quintets: 5/23/2010
Great String Quintets: 5/25/2010
Brandenburg Concertos: 12/19/2010
Brandenburg Concertos: 12/21/2010
Manifest Legacy: Beethoven/Brahms V: 3/6/2011
Manifest Legacy: Beethoven/Brahms V: 3/8/2011
Folk Traditions II: 3/15/2011
Russian Voices: 4/10/2011
Russian Voices: 4/12/2011
Search for Fred Sherry CDs available for purchase at the Chamber Music Society
photo credit: Christian Steiner