Sterling Elliott

Sterling Elliott is acclaimed for his joyous musicianship and is a 2021 Avery Fisher Career Grant recipient and the winner of the Senior Division of the 2019 National Sphinx Competition. He has appeared with leading ensembles, including the Philadelphia Orchestra, Los Angeles and New York Philharmonic orchestras, Boston, Dallas and Detroit Symphony orchestras and the Cleveland Orchestra and made an acclaimed debut at last year’s BBC Proms with Edwin Outwater.

This season he makes debuts with the BBC Scottish and Phoenix Symphony orchestras and Buffalo Philharmonic. As featured soloist with the Sphinx Virtuosi, he takes part in a multi-city tour with performances at Carnegie Hall, Shriver Concert Series, Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, the Gardner Museum, and Schubert Club and more. As a chamber musician, he continues his residency in the Bowers Program of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, appearing with them at Alice Tully Hall and on tour throughout the United States, as well as in trio performances with Anthony McGill and Gloria Chien.

As the Robey Artist with the Young Classical Artists Trust (YCAT) he regularly performs throughout the UK and Europe, including at Wigmore Hall, Hamburg Elbphilharmonie and the Amsterdam Concertgebouw. In 2024 he was named a BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist.
His long association with the Sphinx Organization began when he won the 2014 Junior Division Competition.

Born into a musical household, Sterling Elliott initially wanted to play the violin like his older brother and sister. After a bit of encouragement, he completed the Elliott Family String Quartet, an ensemble that enjoyed personalised arrangements of genres such as bluegrass, gospel and funk.

He is an ambassador of the Young Strings of America, a string sponsorship operated by Shar Music. 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.


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Canmolir Sterling Elliott am ei ddawn gerddorol lawn asbri ac mae’n dderbynnydd Grant Gyrfa Avery Fisher 2021 ac enillydd Adran Hŷn Cystadleuaeth Genedlaethol Sphinx 2019. Mae wedi ymddangos gydag ensembles blaenllaw, gan gynnwys Cerddorfa Philadelphia, Cerddorfeydd Ffilharmonig Los Angeles ac Efrog Newydd, cerddorfeydd Symffoni Boston, Dallas a Detroit a Cherddorfa Cleveland a chafodd glod mawr am ei ymddangosiad cyntaf yn Proms y BBC y llynedd gydag Edwin Outwater.

Y tymor hwn mae’n ymddangos am y tro cyntaf gyda cherddorfeydd Symffoni BBC yr Alban a Phoenix a cherddorfa Ffilharmonig Buffalo. Fel unawdydd gyda’r Sphinx Virtuosi, mae’n cymryd rhan mewn taith aml-ddinas gyda pherfformiadau yn Neuadd Carnegie, Cyfres Cyngherddau Shriver, Cymdeithas Gerddoriaeth Siambr Philadelphia, Amgueddfa Gardner, Clwb Schubert a mwy. Fel cerddor siambr, mae’n parhau â’i breswyliad yn Rhaglen Bowers Cymdeithas Gerddoriaeth Siambr Canolfan Lincoln, gan ymddangos gyda cherddorfa’r Gymdeithas yn Neuadd Alice Tully ac ar daith ledled yr Unol Daleithiau, yn ogystal â pherfformio mewn triawd gydag Anthony McGill a Gloria Chien.

Mae’n Artist Robey gyda’r Young Classical Artists Trust (YCAT) ac yn rhinwedd hynny mae’n perfformio’n rheolaidd ar draws Prydain ac Ewrop, gan gynnwys yn Neuadd Wigmore, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg a Concertgebouw Amsterdam. Yn 2024 cafodd ei enwi’n un o Artistiaid Cenhedlaeth Newydd BBC Radio 3. Dechreuodd ei gysylltiad hir â Sefydliad Sphinx pan enillodd Gystadleuaeth yr Adran Iau yn 2014.

Wedi’i eni i aelwyd gerddorol, dyhead cyntaf Sterling Elliott oedd chwarae’r ffidil fel ei frawd a’i chwaer hŷn. Ar ôl ychydig o anogaeth, fe gwblhaodd Bedwarawd Llinynnol y Teulu Elliott, ensemble a oedd yn mwynhau cyflwyno trefniadau personol o genres fel bluegrass, gospel a ffync.

Mae’n llysgennad i’r Young Strings of America, cynllun nawdd llinynnol a weithredir gan Shar Music. Mae’n perfformio ar soddgrwth Gennaro Gagliano o 1741 ar fenthyg trwy Raglen Noddi Llinynnau Cain Robert F. Smith, mewn partneriaeth â Sefydliad Sphinx.