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A pioneer in the music world, cellist Fred Sherry has introduced audiences throughout the world to contemporary music through his close association with today’s composers. Elliott Carter, Mario Davidovsky, Steven Mackey, David Rakowski, Somei Satoh, Charles Wuorinen and John Zorn have written concertos for him, and he has given premières of solo and chamber works dedicated to him by Milton Babbitt, Derek Bermel, Lukas Foss, Oliver Knussen, Peter Lieberson and Toru Takemitsu, among others. Fred Sherry was a founding member of Tashi and Speculum Musicae, a member of the Group for Contemporary Music, Berio’s Juilliard Ensemble and the Galimir String Quartet, and a close collaborator with jazz pianist and composer Chick Corea. He has been an active performer with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center since the 1970s and was the Artistic Director from 1988 to 1992. He has been a soloist and “sideman” on hundreds of recordings, and the Fred Sherry String Quartet recordings of the Schoenberg String Quartet Concerto and the String Quartets Nos 3 and 4 for Naxos were both nominated for a Grammy®.