Brahms & More
Saturday, September 21, 2019
7:30 PM | Wilson Center
​Sterling Elliott, cello
​​Sponsored by Ronald Sachs Violins
​Tchaikovsky | Rococo Variations
Brahms | Symphony No. 3
Mozart | Overture to The Impresario, K. 486

​Cellist Sterling Elliott (2019 Sphinx Competition Senior Division winner) will be featured on Tchaikovsky's brilliant Rococo Variations.  The Symphony will perform Mozart's Overture to The Impresario, K. 486, and will continue its Brahms cycle with his Symphony No. 3.

Professionally, Sterling has soloed with the New York Philharmonic, the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra, Virginia Symphony Orchestra, the Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra, the South Bend Symphony Orchestra, the New World Symphony, the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra, and many more as well as a performance at the 2019 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. In 2015 & 2016 Sterling performed a 7-week national tour with the Sphinx Virtuosi, and in 2018 was a featured soloist on tour including a performance at Carnegie Hall.

He began his cello studies at the age of three and made his solo debut at the age of seven when he became the first-place Junior Division winner of the PYO Concerto Competition. Other notable accomplishments include 1st place in 2019 National Sphinx Competition Senior Division, 2019 Camerata Artists International Competition, grand prize in the First Presbyterian Young Artist Competition, 1st place in the 2014 Sphinx Competition, 2014 Richmond Symphony Concerto Competition, etc. Sterling has enjoyed the honor of performing for cellist Yo-Yo Ma and also performing alongside recording artist Jennifer Hudson.

Sterling currently studies with Joel Krosnick at the Juilliard School working toward an undergraduate degree in cello performance where he is a proud recipient of a Kovner Fellowship.

Thank you to our Music  Underwriters:
Rococo Variations – Kathy Meyer and the Cello Section
Symphony No. 3 – Lorraine and Hans Westermark
Overture to The Impresario, K. 486 – Bob and Margie Roer

Sponsored by Ronald Sachs Violins
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Directions to Wilson Center
701 N Third Street, Wilmington, NC 28401  |  (910) 362-7999

From I-40:

Follow I-40E into Wilmington and turn right onto US-74 W/Martin Luther King, Jr. Parkway, heading towards Downtown Wilmington. Continue for 4.7 miles, until MLK Parkway becomes 3rd Street. Turn right turn onto Brunswick St. (please note that 3rd street is closed beyond Brunswick Street), then left on 2nd Street. This will take you directly to the North entrance of the parking deck.  The Center is across Hanover Street from the parking deck.
From Brunswick County:

Take US 74E/76N over the Isabel Holmes Bridge. In .7 miles, merge onto 3rd Street and take first right onto N. Front Street. In .2 miles, turn left onto Hanover Street. The parking deck for visitors to the Center will be located one block ahead, on your right. The Center is directly across Hanover Street from the parking deck.
From Jacksonville:

From US-17S, continue onto I 40 W/US-17 S (follow signs for Interstate 40/Shallotte/ Myrtle Beach).  Continue for 7.4 miles then take exit 14 to merge onto US-17 S/US-421 S . In 3 miles, turn left onto the Isabel Holmes Bridge. Merge onto 3rd Street and take the first right turn onto N. Front Street. In .2 miles, turn left onto Hanover Street. The parking deck for visitors of the Center will be located one block ahead, on your right. The center is across Hanover Street from the parking deck.