Margalit Cantor, cello Margalit Cantor is a recent graduate of Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, receiving her Bachelor, Performer Diploma and Masters degrees under the tutelage of Janos Starker, Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi and Emilio Colon. Most recently, she has performed with the Charleston Symphony and, in New York, with Ensemble 212. Margalit was assistant principal cellist of the Columbus Indiana Philharmonic. She was also a member of the Terre Haute and Carmel Symphonies and the Camerata Orchestra of Bloomington. While in school, she performed the Mendelssohn Octet with Miriam Fried in a faculty/student collaborative performance. She has performed with the AIMS Festival opera orchestra for the past three summers in Graz, Austria and attended both the Aspen Summer Music Festival and the Tanglewood Institute. On Baroque cello, Margalit has enjoyed period performance collaborations with the New York Baroque Dance Company, Rachel Barton-Pine and the Chicago Children's Choir, as well as the IU Baroque Orchestra. She received a cognate in Early Music during her Master's degree studying Baroque cello with Stanley Ritchie and Christine Kyprianides. Her wish to spark further interest in classical music has led her to begin performing in alternative style venues. She will be a featured artist at the Waltz-Astoria café classical series in April. While a student at Bloomingdale School of Music, Margalit performed Vivaldi's Double Cello Concerto as a winner of the school's concerto competition and happily returns to the school as a member of its cello faculty.