Charles Curtis performs a unique repertoire of major solo works created expressly for him by La Monte Young, Alvin Lucier, Éliane Radigue and Alison Knowles, and works by Cardew, Wolff, Feldman and Cage. For eleven years Mr. Curtis was the first solo cellist of the NDR Symphony Orchestra in Hamburg. He is now professor of contemporary music performance at UCSD. Mr. Curtis studied at Juilliard under Harvey Shapiro and Leonard Rose. He continues to perform and record the traditional repertoire for cello, both as soloist and as artistic director of the chamber music project Camera Lucida.