Sterling Elliott

Cellist Sterling Elliott is a 2021 Avery Fisher Career Grant recipient and a winner of the 2019 National Sphinx Competition. He has appeared with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Detroit Symphony and the Dallas Symphony, among others, with conductors Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Thomas Wilkins, Jeffrey Kahane, Mei Ann Chen and others. Elliott recently debuted with Minnesota Orchestra, Grand Rapids Symphony, Charlotte Symphony, Pacific Symphony, San Antonio Symphony and New Jersey Symphony. He also performed the world premiere of a new orchestral version of John Corigliano’s Phantasmagoria, commissioned for him by a consortium of orchestras including the Orlando Philharmonic. He made his UK recital debut at Wigmore Hall in 2024. He performs on a 1741 Gennaro Gagliano cello on loan through the Robert F. Smith Fine String Patron Program, in partnership with the Sphinx Organization.