Biography
As a concerto soloist, Bailey has performed with over 200 Symphony orchestras worldwide. These symphony orchestras include the Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Philharmonia UK, Buenos Aires Philharmonic, Buffalo, Nashville Symphony, Borusan Orchestra - Turkey, Ft. Worth, Orquesta Sinfonica Nacional de Colombia, Colorado Symphony, Louisville, Athens State Orchestra Greece, Milwaukee, Minnesota, North Carolina, Toronto, and Utah. [1] He has collaborated with conductors Alan Gilbert, Neemi Jarvi, Andrew Litton, Grant Llewellyn, Itzhak Perlman, James De Preist, Giancarlo Guerrero, Christoph Eschenbach and Stanisław Skrowaczewski, and has performed with the pianists Awadagin Pratt, Marc-Andre Hamelin, Leon Fleisher, the Juilliard String Quartet, the violinist Jaime Laredo, and cellists Lynn Harrell and Janos Starker.
In his sold-out New York recital debut, Bailey performed the complete Beethoven sonatas with pianist Simone Dinnerstein at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He has appeared at the Teatro Colon- Argentina, Walt Disney Concert Hall, [2] Kennedy Center, [3] Alice Tully Hall, JAZZ at Lincoln Center, the 92nd Street Y, and Carnegie Hall, where he made his debut performing the U.S. premiere of Mikis Theodorakis' Rhapsody for Cello and Orchestra.
His international appearances include notable performances with the Moscow Chamber Orchestra in its 50th-anniversary tour of Russia as well as concerts in Australia, the Dominican Republic, France, Greece, Spain, South Africa, Hong Kong, Israel, Jordan, Mexico, South America and the United Kingdom. Festival appearances include Ravinia, the Interlochen Center for the Arts, Manchester Cello Festival (UK), Wimbledon (UK), Consonances-St. Nazareth FRANCE, Australian Festival of Chamber Music, Deia Music Festival- Mallorca (Spain), Montreal- Canada, Santa Fe, Caramoor, Chautauqua, Bravo! Vail Valley, Maverick Concert Series and the Music Academy of the West. In addition he was the featured soloist performing the Elgar Cello Concerto at the Bard Festival in the World Premiere of the Doug Varrone Dance Company performance of Victorious.
An internationally renowned recording artist with over thirty titles, Mr. Bailey’s extensive celebrated discography includes recordings of the Bach Cello Suites and the Britten Cello Symphony/Sonata with pianist Natasha Paremski. Both of which immediately soared to the Number One spot on the Classical Billboard Charts. Other celebrated releases include the compete works for cello and piano of Brahms, Beethoven and Barber in addition to concertos of Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich, Dvorak, Elgar, Haydn, Schumann, Korngold, Saint Saens, Walton, Strauss Don Quixote, Bloch Schelomo, Brahms Double, Beethoven Triple and the world premiere recordings of the Muhly, Zwillich and Daugherty works for cello and orchestra.
Kalmus Music Masters have published "Zuill Bailey Performance Editions" which will encompass the core repertoire of cello literature.
Network television appearances include a recurring role on the HBO series, Oz , in addition to features on NBC, A&E, NHK in Japan, a live broadcast of the Beethoven Triple Concerto from Mexico City, and the televised production of the Cuban premiere of Victor Herbert's Cello Concerto No. 2 with the National Orchestra of Cuba. He has been heard on NPR's Performance Today and Tiny Desk Concert series, Saint Paul Sunday , [4] BBC's In Tune, XM Radio's Live from Studio II, SiriusXM Satellite Radio, TEDx, and RTHK Radio Hong Kong.
Zuill Bailey performs on the 1693 “rosette” Matteo Gofriller Cello, formerly owned by Mischa Schneider of the Budapest String Quartet. In addition to extensive touring engagements, Bailey is the Artistic Director of El Paso Pro Musica, Northwest BachFest in Spokane WA, the Sitka Music Festival, Juneau Jazz & Classics, the Mesa Arts Center and Professor of Cello and Director of the Center for Arts Entrepreneurship at the University of Texas at El Paso. [5] [6] [7]
In 2014, Johns Hopkins honored Zuill Bailey as their distinguished alumni and in 2016, Bailey was nominated for and won a Grammy award in the category of Best Classical Instrumental Solo for his recording of American composer Michael Daugherty's cello concerto Tales of Hemingway, recorded by the Nashville Symphony; the composition also garnered Grammys in the categories of Best Contemporary Classical Composition and Best Classical Compendium. [8]
