A NATIVE NEW YORKER AND PIANO PLAYER WITH EXTRAORDINARY TALENT FROM AGE OF 5. GRADUATED FROM THE HIGH SCHOOL OF MUSIC AND ART, AND WENT ON TO RECEIVE HIS BACHELORS AND MASTER DEGREES IN MUSIC AND COMPOSITION FROM THE MANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC IN NEW YORK CITY. SINCE HIS RECITAL DEBUT IN 1983 AT THE INTERNATIONAL TANZWERKSTATT IN BONN,GERMANY MR.CHERRY HAS REMAINED ACTIVE THROUGHOUT THE AMERICAS,EUROPE AND ASIA, BOTH AS A CONCERT PIANIST SOLOIST AS WELL WITH ORCHESTRAS. PERFORMING WITH ”PROFOUND INVOLVEMENT AND SENSITIVITY’ TO ENTHUSIASTIC AUDIENCES, MR.CHERRY HAS HAD THE HONOR TO PERFORM FOR THE UNITED NATIONS PEACE-KEEPING FORCES NOBEL PEACE PRIZE CELEBRATION,THE 2006 PBS PERFORMANCES FROM WHITE HOUSE, AT THE LINCOLN CENTER, THE KENNEDY CENTER AND BEYOND. FOR OVER 45 YEARS NOW, MR.CHERRY HAS BEEN A COMMITTED COLLABORATOR WITH THE ART OF DANCE AND ONE OF THE MOST RESOURCEFUL AND SOUGHT AFTER PIANISTS IN THE WORLD OF CLASSICAL BALLET. A PROLIFIC CLASS AND REHEARSAL PIANO ACCOMPANIST WITH VARIOUS WORLD RENOWNED DANCE INSTITUTIONS INCLUDING THE AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE, DANCE THEATER OF HARLEM, ALVIN AILEY AMERICAN DANCE THEATER,BALLET HISPANICO AND LIMON DANCE COMPANY WITH A DISCOGRAPHY THAT INCLUDES 6 ALBUMS RELEASES AS A PRINCIPAL PIANIST AND CLASS ACCOMPANIST LOOKING THROUGH THE RAINBOW AND NY EXCELSIOR IS MR. CHERRY’S LATEST ALBUM RELEASES IN COLLABORATION WITH INDEPENDENT MUSIC PRODUCER FARIN KAUTZ AND EXECUTIVE PRODUCER GLEIDSON HOFFMANN.