American cellist Rainer Crosett performs throughout the U.S. and Europe as a soloist and chamber musician. As a recipient of the 2018 Pierre Fournier Award, he made his recital debut at Wigmore Hall and his concerto debut with the Philharmonia Orchestra of London. A passionate chamber musician, he regularly performs at festivals such as Yellow Barn, the Perlman Music Program, Prussia Cove, the Trondheim Chamber Music Festival, and Music@Menlo. In recent years he has performed with renowned musicians such as Robert Levin, Laurence Lesser, Donald Weilerstein, Cho-Liang Lin, the Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, and Kim Kashkashian. In 2014 he co-founded Project LENS, an interdisciplinary ensemble in Boston, USA. He currently serves on the Board of Tonhain Kollektiv, Berlin. Rainer is a graduate of Harvard College (A.B. magna cum laude in Philosophy) and is currently completing studies at the Berlin University of the Arts with Prof. Jens Peter Maintz.