Fred Sherry

For the Major League Baseball pitcher, see Fred Sherry (baseball).

Fred Sherry (born 1948) is an American cellist who is particularly admired for his work as a chamber musician and concert soloist. He studied with Leonard Rose at the Juilliard School before winning the Young Concert Artists International Auditions in 1968. In 1971 he co-founded the Speculum Musicae and in 1973 he co-founded the Tashi Quartet. Since the mid-1980s he has been a regular performer with Bargemusic and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the latter of which he served as artistic director for between 1989 and 1993. He has appeared as a soloist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, New Japan Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Orchestra, and L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. He currently serves on the faculty at the Juilliard School, the Manhattan School of Music, and Mannes College The New School for Music.^[1][2][3]

Discography

With Chick Corea

• The Leprechaun (Polydor, 1976)
• Lyric Suite for Sextet (ECM, 1982) with Gary Burton
• Children's Songs (ECM, 1983)
• Septet (ECM, 1984)

With Steve Swallow

• Carla (Xtra Watt, 1987)

With John Zorn

• Chimeras (Tzadik, 2003)
• Rituals (Tzadik, 2004)
• Magick (Tzadik, 2004)
• Mysterium (Tzadik, 2005)
• From Silence to Sorcery (Tzadik, 2007)
• What Thou Wilt (Tzadik, 2009)
• Music and Its Double (Tzadik, 2012)
• Fragmentations, Prayers and Interjections (Tzadik, 2014)

References

1. Faculty Profile at The Juilliard School website
2. "Faculty Profile at the Manhattan School of Music website". Archived from the original on 2017-11-13. Retrieved 2012-11-07.
3. "Faculty Profile at the Mannes College The New School for Music website". Archived from the original on 2013-07-07. Retrieved 2012-11-07.