Artist

Jerry Grossman

Principal Cellist
Birthplace: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Joined the Met: 1986
Career Highlights/Education: A graduate of Philadelphia’s Curtis Institute of Music, he was formerly a member of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (1984-86) and the New York Philharmonic (1974-76). He has been a guest artist with the Guarneri, Vermeer and Emerson string quartets, and teaches at the Kneisel Hall Summer Chamber Music School in Blue Hill, Maine.