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At the age of 8 Lynn Harrell decided to learn to play the cello. After high school, he studied at the Julliard School in New York and then at the Curtis Institute Of Music in Philadelphia . His influential cello teachers included Leonard Rose and Orlando Cole . He made his debut in 1961 playing with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra at Carnegie Hall . While still a teenager, Harrell was orphaned. His father died first of cancer in 1960 and then, two years later, his mother died in a car accident when Lynn Harrell was 17. "After that," as he has said , "I moved around to different family friends' houses with my one suitcase and cello until I was 18, when I joined the Cleveland Orchestra . In part, I got that job because (its conductor) George Szell knew my father through their collaboration at the Metropolitan Opera . Harrell was thereafter a cellist with the Cleveland Orchestra and its Principal cellist from 1964 to 1971. Harrell made his recital debut in New York in 1971 and since then has performed internationally as a recitalist, chamber music player, and soloist with orchestras. He lives in Houston , Texas with his wife, the violinist Helen Nightengale, and their daughter, Hanna. Lynn Harrell plays a 1721 Montagnana cello he bought with the proceeds of his parents' estate and also a 1673 Stradivarius cello that belonged to the late British cellist Jacqueline Du Pre . AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS
Grammy Award For Best Chamber Music Performance :
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