Michael Curry, cellist, is originally from New Jersey, and was trained at Juilliard, Harvard, and New England Conservatory. His major cello teachers were David Finckel and Laurence Lesser; he also studied piano with Andrew Willis and chamber music with Louis Krasner, Gilbert Kalish, Joseph Silverstein, and Leon Kirchner. He was awarded two fellowships to study at the Berkshire Music Center, Tanglewood, where he won the Albert Spalding prize for outstanding string playing. A member of Dinosaur Annex since 1983, he has also performed with groups such as the Boston Pops, Boston Lyric Opera, Boston Ballet, and Emmanuel Music (including their Brahms and Schubert chamber music series, and collaborations with Peter Sellars and Mark Morris). He has made other chamber music appearances at Carnegie Recital Hall, the United Nations, Dumbarton Oaks, and Monadnock Music, and is frequent solo cellist at the Colonial Theatre. He has recorded for Albany, Gasparo, Nonesuch, and other labels, in addition to recordings with Dinosaur Annex.