The cellist Joshua Gordon joined the Lydian String Quartet and the faculty of Brandeis University in 2002. He is an alumnus of the Juilliard School and the Tanglewood Music Center, and has been heard as soloist and chamber musician in concerts, festivals, and broadcasts across the United States, Canada, Australia, Europe, Japan, and South America. He has been a member of the New York Chamber Soloists, the Group For Contemporary Music, and the New Millennium Ensemble, and has performed as a guest with the Cassatt and Ying Quartets, Emmanuel Music, the Fromm Chamber Players at Harvard University, the New York Festival of Song, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and Speculum Musicae. He was principal cellist of the Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic in Scranton and Wilkes Barre and acting principal cellist of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra. He is currently principal cellist of the New England String Ensemble, co-principal cellist of the New Hampshire Symphony, and resident cellist at the annual Composers Conference at Wellesley College. He studied with Harvey Shapiro, Joel Krosnick, and the Juilliard Quartet, and more recently with George Neikrug. He is featured on recordings from Albany, CRI, Cala, Koch International Classics, Tall Poppies, and Tzadik, and with the Lydians received a Copland Fund grant to record the complete string quartets of Vincent Persichetti for Centaur.

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