SHERRY, FRED A pioneer and a visionary in the music world, the 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. He was a founding member of Speculum Musicae and Tashi. Fred Sherry has been an active performer with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center since the 1970s, an Artist Member since 1984 and was the Artistic Director from 1988 to 1992. He is a member of the cello and chamber music faculty of the Juilliard School and the cello faculty of the Mannes College of Music. In the vast scope of his recording career, Fred Sherry has been a soloist and “sideman” on hundreds of commercial and esoteric recordings. His long-standing collaboration with Robert Craft has produced recordings of Schoenberg’s Cello Concerto and String Quartet Concerto and other major works by Schoenberg, Stravinsky and Webern.
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