10 Facts About Lynn Harrell

Lynn Harrell was born on January 30,1944, to musician parents in Manhattan, New York City: his father was the baritone Mack Lynn Harrell, from Texas, and his mother, Marjorie McAlister Fulton, was a violinist, originally from Oklahoma.

In 1960, when Lynn Harrell was 15, his father died of cancer.

Just before his mother died, in April 1962, Lynn Harrell had withdrawn from Denton High School in his junior year to advance to the semifinals of the Second International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow.

Lynn Harrell made his recital debut in New York in 1971, and a year later played at a Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center concert.

Lynn Harrell went on to teach at the Royal Academy of Music in London, the Aspen Music Festival, the Cleveland Institute of Music, and the Juilliard School.

Lynn Harrell served as the Music Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Institute from 1988 to 1992.

Lynn Harrell was on the faculty of the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University from 2002 to 2009.

Lynn Harrell previously played a 1720 Montagnana cello he bought with the proceeds of his parents' estate and a 1673 Antonio Stradivarius cello that belonged to the late British cellist Jacqueline du Pre.

Lynn Harrell's last instrument was a 2008 cello by Christopher Dungey.

Lynn Harrell died at his home in Santa Monica, California, on April 27,2020, at the age of 76.