Sterling Elliott, cello

Winner of the 2021 Avery Fisher Career Grant, cellist Sterling Elliott returns to the Gardner Museum with an exploration of the “American” sound as employed by composers from around the country and from diverse backgrounds. Boston’s Amy Beach leads off the program with two late 1800s works. Elliott plays a beautiful miniature by William Grant Still, the Arkansas-born mid-century composer of operas, symphonies, and chamber music. New Jersey’s George Walker, an intent modernist later in his career, wrote this glorious sonata in his early rhapsodic, “American” period. Haitian-American Jean Perrault is a composer, violinist, and conductor working in Minnesota. West Coast composer Kevin Day embraces the classic American sound, along with influences from jazz, R&B, and soul music.

Photo Credit: Denny Moes Media House

Amy Beach: III. Dreaming from 4 Sketches, Op. 15 (1892)
                              Romance, Op. 23 (1893)
William Grant Still: Mother and Child (1943)
George Walker: Cello Sonata (1957)
Jean R. Perrault: Brother Malcolm (2009)
Kevin Day: Cello Sonata (2016)
                       Gymnopédie I (2018)
 

Program subject to change. 

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Third Balcony:
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Music at the Gardner is supported by Nora McNeely Hurley / Manitou Fund. Hemenway & Barnes LLP is the lead corporate sponsor of the Weekend Concert Series. The Museum thanks its generous concert donors: The Coogan Concert in memory of Peter Weston Coogan; Fitzpatrick Family Concert; James Lawrence Memorial Concert; Alford P. Rudnick Memorial Concert; David Scudder in memory of his wife, Marie Louise Scudder; Wendy Shattuck Young Artist Concert; and Willona Sinclair Memorial Concert. The piano is dedicated as the Alex d’Arbeloff Steinway. The harpsichord was generously donated by Dr. Robert Barstow in memory of Marion Huse, and its care is endowed in memory of Dr. Barstow by The Barstow Fund. Music at the Gardner is also supported in part by New Music USA's Organization Fund, Nicie and Jay Panetta, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council, which is supported by the state of Massachusetts and the National Endowment for the Arts.