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A multi-faceted musician of consummate virtuosity, Zuill Bailey’s rare combination of compelling artistry, technical finesse, and engaging personality has secured his place as one of the most sought-after cellists today.

This summer Mr. Bailey joins the Nashville Symphony for Dvorak’s Cello Concerto with Danail Rachev and performs at Alaska’s Sikta Music Festival, where he was recently appointed Music Director Designate. He plays a recital of the Bach Cello Suites at Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, appears at the Australian Festival of Chamber Music and returns to Maverick Concerts. He is joined at Ravinia by frequent recital partner, pianist Simone Dinnerstein, for an all-Beethoven program, celebrating the August 25 release of their two-disc recording of the complete Beethoven Sonatas on Telarc International.

In the 2009/10 season, Mr. Bailey plays recitals at Ithaca College and at Caramoor with pianist Awadagin Pratt, and at the Washington Performing Arts Society and the Artist Series at Florida State University with pianist Orion Weiss. Other recitals include dates in California, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, and Utah. He performs the Brahms Double, Dvorak, Elgar, and Shostakovich concerti and Strauss’ Don Quixote with the symphonies of Asheville, Napa Valley, Waterloo/Cedar Falls, Wheeling, and the National Philharmonic at Strathmore, among others. International dates include performances of the Beethoven Triple Concerto with the Israel Philharmonic and the Perlman/Schmidt/Bailey trio (pianist Navah Perlman and violinist Giora Schmidt).

Mr. Bailey opened the 2008/09 season with Saint-Saëns Cello Concerto No. 1 led by Daniel Meyer at Chautauqua, a recital at Maverick Concerts, and season openers with the Arkansas and Fort Collins Symphonies, playing the Dvorak concerto. He appeared with the South Carolina Philharmonic, the Las Vegas Philharmonic, and the symphony orchestras of Anchorage, Chattanooga, Erie, Hudson Valley, Portland (ME), Roanoke, Santa Barbara, Shreveport, et. al. Bailey played recitals at the Howland Cultural Center, at Duke Performances, Pro Musica of Joplin, at Rockefeller University, and appeared with Perlman/Schmidt/Bailey trio at the Kennedy Center, the St. Croix Concert Series, the University of Nebraska’s Lied Center and elsewhere. An exclusive Telarc International recording artist, Bailey’s first disc with the label, featuring Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto No.1, Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations, Pezzo Capriccioso, and Nocturne, was released to critical and popular acclaim in January 2009.

In recent seasons, Zuill Bailey presented concerts at the Kennedy Center, the National Gallery, at La Jolla Music Society, Alice Tully Hall, the 92nd St. Y., and Carnegie Hall, and played the complete Beethoven Sonatas at the Metropolitan Museum of Art with Simone Dinnerstein. As a concerto soloist, Mr. Bailey has performed with the Dallas, San Francisco, Minnesota, Toronto, Buffalo, Edmonton, Ft. Worth, Honolulu, Louisville, Milwaukee, North Carolina, Phoenix, and Utah orchestras, among others. He has played concerts abroad in France, Israel, Jordan, Mexico, Peru and Puerto Rico; at the Manchester International Cello Festival; and with the Moscow Chamber Orchestra. Mr. Bailey made his Carnegie Hall debut with the U.S. premiere of Miklos Theodorakis’ Rhapsody for Cello and Orchestra.

An avid chamber musician, Zuill Bailey regularly performs with the Perlman/Schmidt/Bailey trio, and with pianists Awadagin Pratt and Simone Dinnerstein. Mr. Bailey has appeared in concert with such renowned musicians as Lynn Harrell, the Juilliard String Quartet, Itzhak Perlman and Janos Starker. Recent festival appearances include returns to the Santa Fe and Montreal Chamber Music festivals, the Bard Music Festival, Maverick Concerts, and performances at the Ravinia, Vail Valley, Chautauqua and Wintergreen festivals.

Mr. Bailey’s television appearances include a nationally broadcast recital for NHK-TV in Japan; a performance of the Beethoven Triple Concerto broadcast live nationally from Mexico City; a televised appearance in Havana with the National Orchestra of Cuba in which he gave the Cuban premiere of Victor Herbert’s Cello Concerto No. 2; a recurring role on on HBO’s hit series Oz; and an extended interview/recital on A&E’s Breakfast with the Arts. Among Mr. Bailey’s appearances on radio are his performances on American Public Media’s "Performance Today" and "Saint Paul Sunday", Minnesota Public Radio’s “New Classical Tracks with Julie Amacher”, BBC's "In Tune," XM Radio's "Live from Studio II," Sirius Satellite Radio, the KDFC Concert Series and RTHK Radio Hong Kong.

In addition to the upcoming complete Beethoven Sonatas and the “Russian Masterpieces” disc, Telarc will release Zuill Bailey’s recording of the complete Bach Suites for Solo Cello in 2010. Other albums include a live recording of the Saint-Saëns Concertos Nos. 1 and 2 for Delos (DE 3378); 2003’s eponymous debut recital disk (DE 3326); the Korngold Cello Concerto with Caspar Richter and the Bruckner Orchester Linz for ASV (DCA 1146); and 2004’s Janos Starker Celebration, a musical tribute to the legendary cellist, featuring Bailey and Starker in the Cello Quintets of Boccherini and Schubert.

A graduate of the Peabody Conservatory and The Juilliard School, Mr. Bailey’s principal teachers were Loran Stephenson, Stephen Kates and Joel Krosnick. He performs on a 1693 Matteo Goffriller cello, formerly owned by Mischa Schneider of the Budapest Quartet. In addition to his extensive touring engagements, Mr. Bailey serves as Professor of Cello at the University of Texas-El Paso, and as the Artistic Director of El Paso Pro-Musica.

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