Fred Sherry

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Fred Sherry (* 1948 in Peekskill ) is an American cellist and music teacher.

Sherry studied at the Juilliard School with Leonard Rose and won the Young Concert Artists Competition in New York in 1968 . In 1971 he was one of the founding members of the ensemble for new music Speculum Musicae and in 1973 he was one of the founding members of the Tashi Ensemble (later the Tashi Quartet ). He was also a member of the Group for Contemporary Music , the Juilliard Ensemble and the Galimir String Quartet and worked with jazz musician Chick Corea . He also appears regularly at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and at Bargemusic in Brooklyn. Elliott Carter , Mario Davidovsky , Steven Mackey , David Rakowski , Somei Satoh , Charles Wuorinen and John Zorn wrote cello concertos for him, and he gave world premieres of chamber music works by Milton Babbitt , Derek Bermels , Lukas Foss , Oliver Knussens , Peter Liebersons , Toru Takemitsus and others.

He founded the Bach Cantata Sundays concert series at St. Ann's Church and directed the Arnold Schoenberg: Conservative Radical series in the Merkin Concert Hall . At the A Great Day festival in New York , which he initiated and directed , the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center played works by 52 living American composers. In addition to numerous other recordings, he made Schoenberg's Concerto for String Quartet and his string quartets No. 3 and No. 4 with his own string quartet; both recordings were nominated for a Grammy . Sherry has taught at the Juilliard School since 1992, as well as at the Mannes School of Music and the Manhattan School of Music . In 2011 his book 25 Bach Duets from the Cantatas was published .

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SURNAME Sherry, Fred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American cellist and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Peekskill