Christopher Gross is a founding member of the iO Quartet, currently the Billy Joel Graduate String Quartet in Residence at SUNY Purchase. As a soloist, he most recently premiered Milton Babbitt’s piece, More Melismata, for solo cello on the 2006 Focus! Festival. In the summer of 2005, he appeared in solo performance at John Zorn’s new performance space The Stone. Recently, he appeared as soloist in Arvo Pärt’s Pro et Contra in Juilliard’s Focus! Festival as well as the premiere James Dillon’s piano quintet, The Soadie Waste, and gave many of the early performances of Luciano Berio’s Sequenza XIV for solo cello. Also in demand as an ensemble musician, he has played with various new music ensembles, including the International Contemporary Ensemble, Continuum, Second Instrumental Unit, Talea, Argento Chamber Ensemble, Flux Quartet, and at venues including Weill Hall, Merkin Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Symphony Space, Barge Music, N.E.O.N. Festival, MoMA, Roulette, MOBIA, and the Chelsea Art Museum.

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