Robert Cafaro, cello.

 A native of New York City, Mr. Cafaro was awarded first prize at the Suffolk Symphony Young Artist Competition and the Five Towns Competition in Long Island, New York. He studied with Lorne Munroe and William Stokking and is a graduate of the Juilliard School, where he won the Juilliard Cello Concerto Competition in 1979. Prior to his joining The Philadelphia Orchestra in 1985, he was a member of the Baltimore Symphony and the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. He is a faculty member at the College of New Jersey and the Hartwick College Summer Music Festival and Institute.