Ralph Curry Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Ralph Curry has performed as a cellist in the Cleveland Orchestra since 1978. Curry also maintains an active chamber music life as a member of the Amici String Quartet. Prior to his position with The Cleveland Orchestra, Curry accepted a one-year substitute cello position with the New York Philharmonic, cutting his studies short at the Cleveland Institute of Music. Previously, he held the principal cello chair in the Colorado Philharmonic and performed as a member of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Curry has appeared as a soloist with the Detroit and Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestras, as well as the Colorado Philharmonic. ***Content for the Daily Showcase social media series is obtained from information found online and is presented for educational and informational purposes only. Please let us know if you would like to delete, edit, correct or provide an attribution to a post by emailing us at [email protected]. We also encourage you to contact us at this same email address to inform us of other outstanding Black classical instrumentalists and/or composers, conductors and administrators whom you recommend we feature in the Daily Showcase.***