Carter Brey, cello
Carter Brey was appointed Principal Cellist of the New York Philharmonic in 1996, and made his debut as soloist with the Orchestra in May 1997, performing Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations. He has performed as soloist in subsequent seasons in the Elgar Cello Concerto; in William Schuman’s A Song of Orpheus; in Richard Strauss’s Don Quixote; and in the Brahms Double Concerto with Concertmaster Glenn Dicterow. Mr. Brey rose to international attention in 1981 as a prizewinner in the Rostropovich International Cello Competition. He was also the winner of the Piatigorsky Memorial Prize, Avery Fisher Career Grant, the Young Concert Artists’ Michaels Award, and other honors, and has performed as soloist with many of America’s major orchestras. He has made regular chamber music appearances with the Tokyo and Emerson string quartets, as well as the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Spoleto Festival, and the Santa Fe and La Jolla chamber music festivals. His recording with Garrick Ohlsson of the complete works of Chopin for cello and piano was released by Arabesque in the fall of 2002 to great acclaim. Mr. Brey studied with Laurence Lesser and Stephen Cates at the Peabody Institute and with Aldo Parisot at Yale University (where he was a Wardwell Fellow and a Houpt Scholar). Among his outside interests are marathon running, ballroom dancing, and sailing.
