Zuill Bailey, widely considered one of the premiere cellists in the world, is a Grammy Award winner, distinguished soloist, recitalist, chamber musician, Artistic Director and teacher. His rare combination of celebrated artistry, technical wizardry and engaging personality has secured his place as one of the most sought after and active cellists today.

Recent highlights include appearances with orchestras such as Los Angeles, Chicago, Detroit, Minnesota, Israel, San Francisco, Toronto, Nashville, North Carolina, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, and the Philharmonia (UK) with conductors Itzhak Perlman, Carlos Kalmar, Neeme Järvi, Jun Märkl, Stanislav Skrowaczewski, Alan Gilbert, Andrey Boreyko, Krzysztof Urbanski, Giancarlo Guerrero, Andrew Litton, Grant Llewellyn and James DePriest. He was honored as the distinguished Alumnus of 2014 by Johns Hopkins University Peabody Institute.

Zuill Bailey is an internationally renowned recording artist with over twenty titles. Mr. Bailey's extensive discography includes the Bach Cello Suites and Britten Cello Symphony/Cello Sonata CDs, and Schumann/Brahms Concertos CDs immediately soared to the number one spot on the Classical Billboard Charts. The Grammy Award winning Tales of Hemingway swept the board with three Grammy Awards including Best Solo Performance by Zuill Bailey. Other celebrated releases include the complete works for cello and piano of Brahms, Beethoven and Barber in addition to concertos of Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich, Dvorak, Elgar, Haydn, Schumann, Korngold, Saint-Saëns, Bloch, Brahms, Beethoven and the world premiere recordings of the Tales of Hemingway by Michael Daugherty, and Nico Muhly’s Cello Concerto. Kalmus "Ludwig Masters" has released his musical editions of the core repertoire in celebration of his appearances and recordings.

Mr. Bailey performs on the "rosette" 1693 Matteo Goffriller Cello, formerly owned by Mischa Schneider of the Budapest String Quartet. He is the Artistic Director of El Paso Pro-Musica (Texas), the Sitka Summer Music Festival/Series and Cello Seminar (Alaska), the Northwest Bach Festival (Washington), the “Classical Inside and Out” at the Mesa Arts Center (Arizona) and Director of the Center for Arts Entrepreneurship and Professor of Cello at the University of Texas at El Paso.