Fred Sherry is an American

United States

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 cello

Cello

The cello is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is a member of the violin family of musical instruments, which also includes the violin, viola, and double bass. Old forms of the instrument in the Baroque era are baryton and viol .A person who plays a cello is...

 virtuoso

Virtuoso

A virtuoso is an individual who possesses outstanding technical ability in the fine arts, at singing or playing a musical instrument. The plural form is either virtuosi or the Anglicisation, virtuosos, and the feminine form sometimes used is virtuosa...

 who is particularly admired for his work as a chamber music

Chamber music

Chamber music is a form of classical music, written for a small group of instruments which traditionally could be accommodated in a palace chamber. Most broadly, it includes any art music that is performed by a small number of performers with one performer to a part...

ian and concert soloist. He studied with Leonard Rose

Leonard Rose

Leonard Rose was an American cellist and pedagogue.Rose was born in Washington, D.C., his parents were immigrants from Kiev, Ukraine...

 at the Juilliard School

Juilliard School

The Juilliard School, located at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City, United States, is a performing arts conservatory which was established in 1905...

 before winning the Young Concert Artists International Auditions in 1968. In 1971 he co-founded the Speculum Musicae

Speculum Musicae

Speculum Musicae is an American chamber ensemble dedicated to the performance of contemporary classical music. It was founded in New York City in 1971 and is particularly noted for its performances of the music of Elliott Carter...

 and in 1973 he co-founded the Tashi Quartet

Tashi Quartet

The Tashi Quartet is an ensemble of violinist Ida Kavafian, pianist Peter Serkin, cellist Fred Sherry and clarinetist Richard Stoltzman, founded in 1973 for the purpose of playing the Quartet for the End of Time as well as commissioning new works...

. Since the mid 1980s he has been a regular performer with Bargemusic

Bargemusic

Bargemusic, formally known as Bargemusic, Ltd. is a classical music venue and cultural icon in Brooklyn, New York. Founded in 1977, it is housed on a converted coffee barge moored at Fulton Ferry Landing on the East River near the Brooklyn Bridge....

 and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the latter of which he served as Artistic Director for between 1989-1993. He has appeared as a soloist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic

Los Angeles Philharmonic

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, New Japan Philharmonic

New Japan Philharmonic

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, Boston Symphony Orchestra

Boston Symphony Orchestra

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, and L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. He currently serves on the faculty at the Juilliard School

Juilliard School

The Juilliard School, located at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City, United States, is a performing arts conservatory which was established in 1905...

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Discography

With Chick Corea

Chick Corea

Armando Anthony "Chick" Corea is an American jazz pianist, keyboardist, and composer.Many of his compositions are considered jazz standards. As a member of Miles Davis' band in the 1960s, he participated in the birth of the electric jazz fusion movement. In the 1970s he formed Return to Forever...

• The Leprechaun
  The Leprechaun (Chick Corea album)
  The Leprechaun is an album by Chick Corea recorded and released in 1976.The album was recorded during Corea's time with his jazz fusion group Return to Forever...
  
  (Polydor, 1976)
• Lyric Suite for Sextet
  Lyric Suite for Sextet
  Lyric Suite for Sextet is an album by vibraphonist Gary Burton and pianist Chick Corea with a string quartet recorded in 1982 and released on the ECM label...
  
  (ECM, 1982) with Gary Burton
  Gary Burton
  Gary Burton is an American jazz vibraphonist.A true original on the vibraphone, Burton developed a pianistic style of four-mallet technique as an alternative to the usual two-mallets. This approach caused Burton to be heralded as an innovator and his sound and technique are widely imitated...
  
  
• Children's Songs
  Children's Songs
  Children's Songs is an album by Jazz pianist Chick Corea, released in 1984.Children's Songs mainly consists of short songs with simple themes. There is little development in the pieces, which capture a variety of melodies and moods...
  
  (ECM, 1983)
• Septet
  Septet (album)
  Septet is an album by pianist Chick Corea featuring music for string quartet, piano, flute and French horn recorded in 1984 and released on the ECM label.-Reception:The Allmusic review awarded the album 2 stars.-Track listing:# "1st Movement" - 1:57...
  
  (ECM, 1984)

With John Zorn

John Zorn

John Zorn is an American avant-garde composer, arranger, record producer, saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist. Zorn is a prolific artist: he has hundreds of album credits as performer, composer, or producer...

• Chimeras
  Chimeras (album)
  Chimeras is an album of contemporary classical music by American composer John Zorn featuring a 12 part piece inspired by Arnold Schoenberg's atonal composition "Pierrot Lunaire"...
  
  (Tzadik, 2003)
• Rituals
  Rituals (album)
  -Track listing:# "I" - 4:48# "II" - 7:45# "III" - 4:21# "IV" - 5:21# "V" - 4:19-Personnel:*Jennifer Choi – violin*Stephen Drury – piano, harpsichord, celeste, organ*Brad Lubman – conductor*Tara O'Connor – flute, alto flute, piccolo...
  
  (Tzadik, 2004)
• Magick
  Magick (album)
  Magick is an album of contemporary classical music by American avant-garde composer John Zorn.-Reception:The Allmusic review awarded the album 3½ stars.- Track listing :# "Necronomicon: Conjurations" - 2:45# "Necronomicon: The Magus" - 6:24...
  
  (Tzadik, 2004)
• Mysterium
  Mysterium (album)
  - Track listing :# "Orphée" - 9:14# "Frammenti del Sappho" - 13:37# "Walpurgisnacht: Part 1" - 2:52# "Walpurgisnacht: Part 2" - 5:11# "Walpurgisnacht: Part 3" - 1:53- Personnel :* Tara O'Connor – flute* Lois Martin – viola* June Han – harp...
  
  (Tzadik, 2005)
• From Silence to Sorcery
  From Silence to Sorcery
  From Silence to Sorcery is an album of contemporary classical music by John Zorn which features three instrumental works touching upon themes of magic and mysticism. "Goetia" is a set of variations for solo violin written in 2002...
  
  (Tzadik, 2007)
• What Thou Wilt
  What Thou Wilt
  What Thou Wilt is an album by John Zorn released in October 2010. It was originally composed in 1999 and features many of Zorn's prominent collaborators, including Erik Friedlander, Stephen Drury, and Fred Sherry...
  
  (Tzadik, 2009)