Carter Brey is the Principal Cellist of the New York Philharmonic, a position he has held for nearly two decades. He has been a longstanding member of the Habitat4Music advisory board and is a founding member of KahaneSwensen-Brey, a new and exciting piano trio currently on the international scene.
Brey was appointed Principal Cellist of the New York Philharmonic in 1996, and made his debut as soloist with the Orchestra in May 1997. He has performed as soloist in subsequent seasons with conductors: Andre Previn, Christian Thielemann, Alan Gilbert, Lorin Maazel, Zubin Mehta, Christoph Eschenbach and Riccardo Muti.
Brey is the recipient of the Gregor Piatigorsky Memorial Prize, the Avery Fisher Career Grant, and Young Concert Artists' Michaels Award. He was the first musician to win the Arts Council of America's Performing Arts Prize. Brey has performed as soloist with many of America's major symphony orchestras and has made regular appearances with the Tokyo and Emerson string quartets as well as the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Spoleto Festival in the U.S. and Italy, among others.
Brey was educated at the Peabody Institute and at Yale University, where he studied with Aldo Parisot and was a Wardwell Fellow and a Houpt Scholar. Carter Brey currently serves as Global Ambassador for Habitat4Music.
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