The 2002/03 season begins with Mr. Bailey performing with the Chicago Symphony and Itzhak Perlman conducting in the opening weekend of the Ravinia Festival. Other concerto appearances include performances with the National Orchestra de Cuba, Phoenix, South Carolina, El Paso, Illinois, Lexington, Knoxville, and San Luis Obispo Symphonies. Bailey also continues his partnership with pianist Awadagin Pratt in a series of Duo recitals in addition to his recitals in Texas, Nevada, Washington DC, Arizona, Idaho, Arkansas, and a tour of the caribbean. An avid chamber musician, Bailey will also be presenting concerts as a member of the Perlman/Schmidt/Bailey Trio in North Carolina and California, as well as leading the El Paso Pro Musica Chamber Festival as "Artistic Director" in Texas. Other activities include a feature recital on XM Radio's "Live from Studio II", a showcase on A&E's "Breakfast with the Arts", and the revisiting of his role as a murderous cellist in new segments being filmed for HBO's "OZ".

The 2001/02 season began with Mr. Bailey's performing the Beethoven Triple Concerto with the Dallas Symphony as well as chamber music concerts at the Bravo! Colorado Vail Valley Music Festival. He premiered a work by Lowell Lieberman commissioned for his trio in concerts and residencies at the Lied Centers in Kansas and Nebraska; and throughout the season he presented an extensive recital tour of the U.S., including duo recitals with Awadagin Pratt at the Des Moines Civic Center, Vanderbilt University in Nashville, and the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at the University of Maryland in College Park. His orchestral engagements included performances of Schumann's Cello Concerto, Popper's Hungarian Rhapsody, Beethoven's Triple Concerto, Brahms' Double Concerto, Dvorak's Cello Concerto and Tchaikovsky's Rococo Variations with symphonies in South Carolina, Arizona, Georgia, Westchester County, Maryland, New Hampshire and Virginia.

Mr. Bailey led off the 2000-01 season by stepping in to play Haydn's Cello Concerto in C Major at Ravinia for an indisposed Heinrich Schiff, and subsequently was invited to play a recital on Ravinia's Rising Stars Series. He also made his Carnegie Hall solo debut giving the U.S. premiere of the Theodorakis "Rhapsody for Cello and Orchestra". In addition, he presented recitals at the Manchester International Cello Festival in England, and a performance for national broadcast on NHK-TV in Japan. With his trio partners; he was a guest artist at the Lied Center in Nebraska, with the Lexington Philharmonic and with the New York Chamber Symphony conducted by Itzhak Perlman at Lincoln Center performing Beethoven's Triple Concerto. Mr. Bailey also toured the U.S. in recital and in orchestral engagements, including concerts with the Arkansas, Washington Chamber, Napa Valley and New Hampshire Symphonies.

Zuill Bailey is a well-known guest at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., the Kravis Center in Palm Beach and Wolf Trap in Virginia, where he has appeared in concert with his trio. He has also been featured in the summer festivals of Chautauqua (Victor Herbert No. 2), San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara's Musical Academy of the West, Rutgers, the Music Festival of the Hamptons in Easthampton with Lukas Foss, in a series of Parisian music at the Museum of Modern Art's SummerGarden Festival in New York City, and at the Appalachian and Daytona Festivals.

Mr. Bailey enjoys collaborating on projects which encompass several areas of the entertainment industry. At Lincoln Center he played selections from the Bach Cello Suites with dancers choreographed by Igal Perry. On television, Mr. Bailey has been featured on Good Day, L.A. in California and WAVY in Virginia, and has recorded selections on two soundtracks for the NBC drama series Homicide: Life on the Street, which led to his on-screen appearance in several episodes of the HBO drama series, OZ.