Sterling Elliott – Press

“Sterling Elliot has the press nomenclature (as a 2021 Avery Fisher Grant winner) of being a rising star, however, that is not correct: he is a star cellist who has risen beyond hopeful promise to astonishing maturity. If you see his name on an upcoming venue, take the leap, and hear what he is up to, no matter what the program offers.”

“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.”

“Elliott put a fresh, new statement on modern love with Schumann’s Concerto in A minor for Violin, Cello and Orchestra, Op. 129”

“While Elliott was in town, he stopped by GPB to chat with Sarah Zaslaw — about high notes, fast cars, and infusing his playing with ever more life experience.”