Zuill Bailey

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Zuill Bailey (born April 24, 1972 in Alexandria / Virginia ) is an American cellist.

Life and career

Bailey studied at the Peabody Conservatory , Juilliard School, and Johns Hopkins University . His main teachers were Loran Stephenson , Stephen Kates and Joel Krosnick . He has performed as a soloist with well-known orchestras from the USA, Israel and Austria under the direction of conductors such as Andrey Boreyko , Alan Gilbert , Carlos Kalmar , Jacques Lacombe , Andrew Litton , Grant Llewellyn , Jun Märkl , Itzhak Perlman , James De Priest , Stanislaw Skrowaczewski and Krzysztof Urbański . As a chamber musician, he has worked with the pianist Leon Fleisher , the violinist Jaime Laredo , the Juilliard String Quartet and the cellists Lynn Harrell , Janos Starker and David Martín . With the pianist Navah Perlman and the violinist Philippe Quint he forms the Perlman / Quint / Bailey Trio . A regular duo partner is the pianist Awadagin Pratt .

On his New York debut at the Metropolitan Museum of Art , he played all of Ludwig van Beethoven's sonatas for piano and cello with Simone Dinnerstein . On his Carnegie Hall debut , he played the American premiere of Mikis Theodorakis ' Rhapsody for cello and orchestra. He has also performed the American premiere of Nico Muhly's Cello Concerto with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra and the world premieres of works by Lowell Lieberman , Philip Lasser , Roberto Sierras , Benjamin Wallfisch and Michael Daugherty . He has toured Russia (with the Moscow Chamber Orchestra), Australia, the Dominican Republic, France, Israel, Spain, South Africa, Hong Kong, Jordan, Mexico, South America and Great Britain and performed at the Ravinia Festival and the Interlochen Center for the Arts , at the Manchester Cello Festival , the Consonances Festival in St. Nazaire (France) and the Australian Festival of Chamber Music .

His numerous music recordings include Johann Sebastian Bach's cello suites, Benjamin Britten's Cello Symphony , Ernest Bloch's Schelomo , Muhlys, Edward Elgars , Camille Saint-Saëns , Antonín Dvořák's and Erich Wolfgang Korngold's cello concertos, the complete works of Johannes Brahms for cello and piano (with Awadagin Pratt) and compositions by Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich . For his recording of Beethoven's works for piano and cello with Simone Dinnerstein he received the Classical Recording Foundation Award in 2006 and 2007 . In 2014 he received the Johns Hopkins University Distinguished Alumni Award .

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