Ensemble 212 - Musicians

Margalit Cantor is a 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, as principal cellist with the Dicapo Opera Theater, and with the Manhattan Chamber Orchestra and Big Apple Baroque. She regularly performs orchestral and chamber music concerts through out New York. Margalit is on the faculty of Bloomingdale School of Music and the Lucy Moses School. She is a certified Suzuki cello instructor and an avid music educator. During her time in Indiana, Margalit was assistant principal cellist of the Columbus Indiana Philharmonic and member of the Terre Haute and Carmel Symphonies along with the Camerata Orchestra of Bloomington. While in school, she performed the Mendelssohn Octet with Miriam Fried in a special faculty/student collaborative performance. She has performed four summers with the AIMS Festival opera orchestra in Graz, Austria and attended both the Aspen Summer Music Festival and the Tanglewood Institute. Margalit received a cognate in Early Music, studying Baroque cello with Stanley Ritchie and Christine Potter. Playing Baroque cello, she has enjoyed period performance collaborations with the New York Baroque Dance Company, Rachel Barton-Pine and the Chicago Children's Choir, as well as chamber performances with members of Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra. In June of 2010, she had her 5-string piccolo cello debut performing one of Charpentier's Masses in Toronto, while attending the Tafelmusik Institute. While in Toronto, Margalit had the opportunity to study Vivaldi’s D Major Cello Concerto RV. 404, on baroque cello, with Tafelmusik's principal cellist, Christina Mahler which she will perform with Ensemble 212 this season.
Ms. Cantor has been a core member of Ensemble 212 since 2008.

current as of November 2010