ZUILL BAILEY - A SCHEDULE TO RECKON WITH

Keeping you up-to-date with the live performance schedule of Delos recording artists is usually relatively easy. A call to their management normally results in an orderly response with ten to twenty dates outlined for the next season.

Not so with Zuill Bailey, the dynamic cello virtuoso, whose Delos releases helped debut his spectacular career. From this October 2008 until next August 2009 he is signed up for 50 (and counting) concerts and recital dates. The travelling required is mind-boggling and must result in thousands of airline bonus miles. Cities and locales range from Santa Barbara CA, San Francisco CA, Napa Valley CA, El Paso TX, the Hudson Valley, Washington DC, Portsmouth VA, Columbia SC, Las Cruces NM, Troy NY, Raleigh NC, Shreveport LA, Las Vegas NV, Phoenix AZ, Palm Springs, CA, Anchorage AK (in February!), Victoria TX, Stillwater MN, Chatanooga TN, Atlanta GA, Spartanburg SC, Danville VA, Lake Charles LA, Erie PA, Beacon NY, New York NY, Orlando FL, and then off to Townsville Australia! Repertoire with orchestras includes the Beethoven Triple Concerto, cello concertos by Elgar, Haydn, Dvorak, and Saint-Saëns, plus Strauss's Don Quixote and Tchaikovsky's Rococo Variations and Pezzo Capriccioso. Chamber music and recital dates feature pieces by Beethoven, Bach, Mendelssohn, Massenet, Paganini, Schubert, Brahms, Schumann, Casals, and Shostakovich. For exact information in your area check Zuill's website www.ZuillBailey.com/tour.

Closest to us are his appearances in Santa Barbara, whiere he helps to inaugurate the new season of the Santa Barbara Symphony in its new home, the grandly restored Granada Theater. Concerts are on October 25 and 26. Zuill plays the cello part in Beethoven's Triple Concerto with pianist Navah Perlman and violinist Giora Schmidt.

To hear what makes Zuill so special, try any or all of Delos' Zuill Bailey releases:

Zuill Bailey Debut Album (DE 3326) with pianist Simone Dinnerstein in pieces by J.S. Bach, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Chopin, Francoeur, and Vieuxtemps.

Janos Starker Celebration (DE 3344) in which Zuill joins the master in the great Schubert Quintet in C, and the Boccherini Quintet in C. Also with violinists Kurt Nikkanen and Soovin Kim, and violist Kirten Johnson.

Beethoven Cello Sonatas 1-3 (DE 3368) with pianist Simone Dinnerstein.

Saint-Saëns Cello Concertos 1 & 2 (DE 3378) a glorious collaboration with David Wiley and the Roanoke Symphony.

Arensky & Dohnányi with cellist Lynn Harrell (DE 1040) Live from El Paso Pro-Musica, with violinists Soovin Kim and Giora Schmidt and violist Kirsten Johnson.