“Elliott turned Bach’s Prelude into a beguiling conversation with itself. A phrase stated overtly returned in a pianissimo echo, as if a second cello were responding somewhere in the distance. There was a sense of both spaciousness and intimacy. It was anything but grand and pompous.”
Classical Voice
Meet Sterling Elliott
Acclaimed for his stellar stage presence and joyous musicianship, cellist 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 major orchestras such 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, Mei Ann Chen and others.