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A pioneer and a visionary in the music world, cellist Fred Sherry has introduced audiences on five continents to the music of our time through his close association with such eminent composers as Babbitt, Berio, Carter, Davidovsky, Foss, Knussen, Lieberson, Mackey, Takemitsu and Wuorinen. Mario Davidovsky, Steven Mackey, Somei Satoh and Charles Wuorinen have written concertos for Mr. Sherry which he has performed with orchestras including the San Francisco Symphony, Municipal Orchestra of Buenos Aires, the American Composers Orchestra, the Orchestra of St. Luke's and the New York City Ballet.
He has been a member of the Group for Contemporary Music, Berio's Juilliard Ensemble, the Gahmir String Quartet and a close collaborator with jazz pianist and composer Chick Corea. Mr. Sherry was a founding member of Speculum Musicae and Tashi. His work with Tashi includes a number of premieres and performances with the Cleveland Orchestra, Boston Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, New Japan Philharmonic, Montreal Symphony and L'Orchestra de la Suisse Romande.
Mr. Sherry has been an active performer with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center since the 1970's, an Artist Member since 1984 and was the Artistic Director from 1988 to 1992. A member of the Resident Artist's Committee, he has had a long association with Bargemusic LTD, New York's only floating concert hall. He has been a guest at festivals including the Aldeburgh Festival, Casals Festival, Tanglewood, Spoleto and Toru Takemitsu's Music Today and is a mainstay at the Scotia Festival of Music, Chamber Music Northwest and the Mostly Mozart Festival.
Mr. Sherry created the series "Bach Cantata Sundays" at St. Ann's Church and conceived and directed the acclaimed "Arnold Schoenberg: Conservative Radical" series at Merkin Concert Hall. He is the creator and director of "A Great Day in New York," the groundbreaking festival featuring 52 living composers presented by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and Merkin Concert Hall in January and February 2001.
In the vast scope of his recording career, Fred Sherry has been a soloist and "sideman" on hundreds of commercial and esoteric recordings on RCA, Columbia, Vanguard, CRI, Albany, ECM, New World, Arabesque, Delos, Vox and Koch. A recent release is Mr. Sherry's recording of the Schoenberg-Monn cello concerto with Robert Craft and the Philharmonia Orchestra of London on Koch International. Some of Mr. Sherry's "classic" recordings have been reissued many times.
Fred Sherry is a member of the cello and chamber music faculty of the Juilliard School and is a guest teacher at the Britten-Pears School Contemporary Music Course. He is currently writing a treatise on contemporary string playing.
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