Sterling Elliott

Acclaimed for his stellar stage presence and joyous musicianship, cellist Sterling Elliott is a 2021 Avery Fisher Career Grant recipient and the winner of the Senior Division of the 2019 National Sphinx Competition. As a soloist, Elliott has appeared with orchestras including the Philadelphia Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Detroit Symphony, and the Dallas Symphony. As a chamber musician, he has been a resident artist with the Bowers Program of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.

With the Sphinx Virtuosi, Elliott has performed at Carnegie Hall and the Gardner Museum, as well as for the Shriver Concert Series, Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, Schubert Club, and more. As the Robey Artist with the London-based Young Classical Artists Trust, in partnership with Music Masters, Elliott regularly performs throughout the UK and Europe, including at Wigmore Hall, Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie, and the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, as well as on tour in New Zealand. In 2024, Elliott was named a BBC New Generation Artist, and 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.