Lynn Harrell
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2020
El Paso, TX
Fox Fine Arts Recital Hall
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14
2020
Zürich, Switzerland
Konzertsaal Tonhalle Maag
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NOV
19
2019
Mesa, AZ
Piper Repertory Theater
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OCT
03
2019
New York, NY
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage at Carnegie Hall
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OCT
06
2018
Tulsa, OK
Tulsa Performing Arts Center
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AUG
21
2016
Highland Park, IL
Ravinia Festival
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About Lynn Harrell
Lynn Harrell (born 1944) is an American classical cellist.
Harrell was born in New York of musician parents; his father was the distinguished baritone Mack Harrell and his mother, Marjorie Fulton, was a violinist. At the age of eight he decided to learn to play the cello. When Lynn was 12, his family moved to Dallas, Texas, where Lynn studied with Lev Aronson. After high school, he studied at the Juilliard School in New York and then at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. His influential cello teachers included Leonard Rose and Orlando Cole. He made his debut in 1961 playing with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra at Carnegie Hall.
While still a teenager, Harrell was orphaned. His father died first of cancer in 1960 and then, two years later, his mother died in a car accident when Lynn Harrell was 17. "After that," as he has said, "I moved around to different family friends' houses with my one suitcase and cello until I was 18, when I joined the Cleveland Orchestra. In part, I got that job because [its conductor] George Szell knew my father through their collaboration at the Metropolitan Opera." Harrell was thereafter a cellist with the Cleveland Orchestra and its principal cellist from 1964 to 1971.
Harrell made his recital debut in New York in 1971 and since then has performed internationally as a recitalist, chamber music player, and soloist with orchestras. He is a renowned teacher who has taught at prestigious music schools and conservatories, including the Royal Academy London, the Aspen Music Festival, the Cleveland Institute of Music, and the Juilliard School. He served as the Music Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Institute from 1988-1992. Currently, he is on the faculty of the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University and lives in Houston, Texas with his wife, the violinist Helen Nightengale, and their daughter, Hanna.
Lynn Harrell plays a 1721 Montagnana cello he bought with the proceeds of his parents' estate and also a 1673 Stradivarius cello that belonged to the late British cellist Jacqueline du Pre.
Harrell was born in New York of musician parents; his father was the distinguished baritone Mack Harrell and his mother, Marjorie Fulton, was a violinist. At the age of eight he decided to learn to play the cello. When Lynn was 12, his family moved to Dallas, Texas, where Lynn studied with Lev Aronson. After high school, he studied at the Juilliard School in New York and then at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. His influential cello teachers included Leonard Rose and Orlando Cole. He made his debut in 1961 playing with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra at Carnegie Hall.
While still a teenager, Harrell was orphaned. His father died first of cancer in 1960 and then, two years later, his mother died in a car accident when Lynn Harrell was 17. "After that," as he has said, "I moved around to different family friends' houses with my one suitcase and cello until I was 18, when I joined the Cleveland Orchestra. In part, I got that job because [its conductor] George Szell knew my father through their collaboration at the Metropolitan Opera." Harrell was thereafter a cellist with the Cleveland Orchestra and its principal cellist from 1964 to 1971.
Harrell made his recital debut in New York in 1971 and since then has performed internationally as a recitalist, chamber music player, and soloist with orchestras. He is a renowned teacher who has taught at prestigious music schools and conservatories, including the Royal Academy London, the Aspen Music Festival, the Cleveland Institute of Music, and the Juilliard School. He served as the Music Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Institute from 1988-1992. Currently, he is on the faculty of the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University and lives in Houston, Texas with his wife, the violinist Helen Nightengale, and their daughter, Hanna.
Lynn Harrell plays a 1721 Montagnana cello he bought with the proceeds of his parents' estate and also a 1673 Stradivarius cello that belonged to the late British cellist Jacqueline du Pre.
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concerts and tour dates
Past
FEB
01
2020
El Paso, TX
Fox Fine Arts Recital Hall
I Was There
JAN
14
2020
Zürich, Switzerland
Konzertsaal Tonhalle Maag
I Was There
NOV
19
2019
Mesa, AZ
Piper Repertory Theater
I Was There
OCT
03
2019
New York, NY
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage at Carnegie Hall
I Was There
OCT
06
2018
Tulsa, OK
Tulsa Performing Arts Center
I Was There
AUG
21
2016
Highland Park, IL
Ravinia Festival
I Was There
Show More Dates
About Lynn Harrell
Lynn Harrell (born 1944) is an American classical cellist.
Harrell was born in New York of musician parents; his father was the distinguished baritone Mack Harrell and his mother, Marjorie Fulton, was a violinist. At the age of eight he decided to learn to play the cello. When Lynn was 12, his family moved to Dallas, Texas, where Lynn studied with Lev Aronson. After high school, he studied at the Juilliard School in New York and then at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. His influential cello teachers included Leonard Rose and Orlando Cole. He made his debut in 1961 playing with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra at Carnegie Hall.
While still a teenager, Harrell was orphaned. His father died first of cancer in 1960 and then, two years later, his mother died in a car accident when Lynn Harrell was 17. "After that," as he has said, "I moved around to different family friends' houses with my one suitcase and cello until I was 18, when I joined the Cleveland Orchestra. In part, I got that job because [its conductor] George Szell knew my father through their collaboration at the Metropolitan Opera." Harrell was thereafter a cellist with the Cleveland Orchestra and its principal cellist from 1964 to 1971.
Harrell made his recital debut in New York in 1971 and since then has performed internationally as a recitalist, chamber music player, and soloist with orchestras. He is a renowned teacher who has taught at prestigious music schools and conservatories, including the Royal Academy London, the Aspen Music Festival, the Cleveland Institute of Music, and the Juilliard School. He served as the Music Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Institute from 1988-1992. Currently, he is on the faculty of the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University and lives in Houston, Texas with his wife, the violinist Helen Nightengale, and their daughter, Hanna.
Lynn Harrell plays a 1721 Montagnana cello he bought with the proceeds of his parents' estate and also a 1673 Stradivarius cello that belonged to the late British cellist Jacqueline du Pre.
Harrell was born in New York of musician parents; his father was the distinguished baritone Mack Harrell and his mother, Marjorie Fulton, was a violinist. At the age of eight he decided to learn to play the cello. When Lynn was 12, his family moved to Dallas, Texas, where Lynn studied with Lev Aronson. After high school, he studied at the Juilliard School in New York and then at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. His influential cello teachers included Leonard Rose and Orlando Cole. He made his debut in 1961 playing with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra at Carnegie Hall.
While still a teenager, Harrell was orphaned. His father died first of cancer in 1960 and then, two years later, his mother died in a car accident when Lynn Harrell was 17. "After that," as he has said, "I moved around to different family friends' houses with my one suitcase and cello until I was 18, when I joined the Cleveland Orchestra. In part, I got that job because [its conductor] George Szell knew my father through their collaboration at the Metropolitan Opera." Harrell was thereafter a cellist with the Cleveland Orchestra and its principal cellist from 1964 to 1971.
Harrell made his recital debut in New York in 1971 and since then has performed internationally as a recitalist, chamber music player, and soloist with orchestras. He is a renowned teacher who has taught at prestigious music schools and conservatories, including the Royal Academy London, the Aspen Music Festival, the Cleveland Institute of Music, and the Juilliard School. He served as the Music Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Institute from 1988-1992. Currently, he is on the faculty of the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University and lives in Houston, Texas with his wife, the violinist Helen Nightengale, and their daughter, Hanna.
Lynn Harrell plays a 1721 Montagnana cello he bought with the proceeds of his parents' estate and also a 1673 Stradivarius cello that belonged to the late British cellist Jacqueline du Pre.
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