Musician profiles are in alphabetical order.

Noteworthy: B.M. in cello performance and M.M. with distinction in Performance and Literature, both from the Eastman School of Music; expected D.M.A. in cello performance from UW-Madison in May 2006. Second place at Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition in 1998, as a member of a cello quartet.
Oddest practice quarters: A 14th-century mill on the Seine River in Normandy, France.
What your colleagues don't know about you: I'm a member of Tarab Cello Ensemble, a professional cello octet that specializes in new music.
Recurrent musical fantasy: To tour the world with a professional string quartet.

Noteworthy: B.M. in cello performance, Juilliard; Fulbright scholarship to study cello at the Hochschule für Musik, Vienna, Austria; winner of Concert Artists Guild competition, NY, as a member of Sonos Chamber Ensemble.
Funniest concert experience: A long time ago, I went to a Boston Symphony concert with my mother, and during a loud part of Berg's Lulu Suite, some small pieces of the ceiling of Symphony Hall fell on us. I think I still have them somewhere, and I think they have fixed the ceiling since then.

Noteworthy: B.M. in cello performance, University of Iowa; M.M. in cello performance, UW-Madison; played in the Cedar Rapids and Quad City Symphonies; played the Saint-Saëns Cello Concerto No. 1 with the Dubuque Symphony Orchestra.
Oddest practice quarters: When I was about 12, a music camp coach had our string quartet practice in a pink tiled women's dorm bathroom to explore acoustics. It was pretty embarrassing, especially for the only boy in the group!
What your colleagues don't know about you: I can play piano upside-down.
If I were John DeMain for a day: I'd let each section of the orchestra choose a musical work, and program a concert of "MOS musicians' favorites!"

Noteworthy: This is my 25th year with the MSO. Performed a graduate solo recital on all four string instruments.
Oddest practice quarters: My church's boiler room.
Funniest concert experience: While playing a concert a mouse poked its head out of a hold in the stage near my chair. It proceeded to scamper under my stand partner's shoe. It was a little tricky telling her that there was a mouse under her foot while we were in the middle of a performance!
What your colleagues don't know about you: I grow over 40 varieties of day lilies.

Noteworthy: BM and MM from Peabody School of Music in Baltimore. Enjoys teaching cello privately and playing chamber music.
Oddest practice quarters: A tiny motel bathroom while studying at the Aspen Music Festival.
Funniest concert experience: All stage and hall lights going out during the opening cello and violin cadenza in a performance of the Brahms Double Concerto in which Tyrone and I played the solo parts. Continuing to play in the dark, the lights came on just in time for the orchestra to make its entrance.
What your colleagues don't know about you: I was a double major in cello and voice. Winning a voice competition as a student, the prize helped make possible further cello study at Aspen.
Recurrent musical fantasy: A world in which everyone plays in tune and in rhythm the first time.

Noteworthy: Recorded for Radio Stuttgart & CBC (Toronto); European tour of West Side Story; masters with Tim Eddy, doctoral candidate with Parry Karp; father of two.
Funniest concert moment: When the violinist lost his music through a crack in the stage floor during a Mendelssohn trio.
Oddest practice quarters: Back of an Italian bus, on tour.
What your colleagues don't know about you: Bicycled competitively; is a marathon runner.

Noteworthy: B.M. in Cello Performance and Instrumental Music Teaching Certification, UW-Madison; currently I'm an elementary orchestra teacher in Shorewood, WI.
Oddest practice quarters: The lobby of the Renaissance Hotel in Prague.
Funniest concert experience: A summer performance in Texas of Ravel's Bolero. We had to begin the piece slouched in our chairs, legs crossed, and holding our instruments (including cellos) like guitars. By the end, we were to be playing in traditional form, swaying back and forth. It was so strange!
What your colleagues don't know about you: I was originally accepted into school on a piano scholarship.
If I were John DeMain for a day: I'd invite the orchestra over for a soiree!

Noteworthy: B.M. in cello performance from University of Illinois at Champaign/Urbana, M.M. in cello performance from Rice University in Houston, and continuing studies toward certifications in music education at UW-Madison.
Oddest practice quarters: Practicing flute in the cabin of a cruise ship while 30-foot seas were making most passengers green from seasickness.
Funniest concert experience: A clothespin holding my music flew off the music stand and into the f-hold of my bass and rattled for the rest of the gig.
What your colleagues don't know about you: I play bass in an all-women swing band, "Ladies Must Swing," and a six-piece jazz group, "6 of 1".
Recurrent musical fantasy: To play chamber music with my two young sons who play classical guitar and cello.

Noteworthy: B.M. from Boston University, M.M. from UW-Madison on Collins Fellowship. Fellow at Tanglewood and Aspen Music Festival. Performed Brahms second symphony with the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
Oddest practice quarters: Old ice fishing huts at my first music camp.
Funniest concert experience: While playing quartets on the street in Aspen one day, both violinists suddenly started flipping out and we had to stop playing; they told us that Gil Shaham had just stopped to listen and dropped us a 20-dollar bill.
Recurrent musical fantasy: To play in the Turtle Island String Quartet.