MEET THE SOLOIST: Sterling Elliott

Cellist Sterling Elliott performs Elgar's Cello Concerto
October 15, 2022, 8PM

Background: Sterling made his concerto debut at the age of seven by winning the Junior Division of the PYO Concerto Competition, and later the 2014 Richmond Symphony Concerto Competition and the Bay Youth Orchestra of Virginia Concerto Competition. He is currently a Kovner Fellow at the Juilliard School, where he is pursuing his mater of music degree studying with Joel Krosnick. He completed his undergraduate degree in cello performance at Juilliard in May 2021. He currently performs on a 1741 Gennaro Gagliano cello on loan through the Robert F. Smith Fine String Patron Program, in partnership with the Sphinx Organization.

Highlights:

• Sterling Elliott is a 2021 Avery Fisher Career Grant recipient and the winner of the Senior Division of the 2019 National Sphinx Competition. Already in his young career, he has appeared with such major orchestras as the Philadelphia Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Detroit Symphony, and the Dallas Symphony, with noted conductors Yannick Nezet-Seguin, Thomas Wilkins, Jeffrey Kahane, Bramwell Tovey, Mei Ann Chen and others. This summer, he made his Aspen Festival debut, performing the Brahms Double Concerto with Gil Shaham, and he made his German debut in Munich in May 2022, performing chamber music with Daniel Hope.

• Sterling has a long history with the Sphinx Organization, where he first received second place in the 2013 National Sphinx Competition Junior Division, then won the 2014 Junior Division. In 2016, he received the organization’s Isaac Stern Award and toured with the Sphinx Virtuosi in 2018 before winning in 2019.

• Sterling is a two-time alum of NPR’s From the Top where he was a recipient of a scholarship from The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation and performed several concerts in Switzerland at the 2019 World Economic Forum. In spring 2022, Sterling participated in Performance Today’s Young Artist Residency, which featured educational events, interviews and a feature on the nationally syndicated radio program.

Critical Praise:

• "There was nothing modest about the virtuosic performance of Sterling Elliott however, another prodigious musical talent." Courier & Press

• “Elliott’s impeccable musicianship, as well as his discernible love for the music won over the audience, which responded with sustained standing applause.” ClassicsToday.com
  

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