Cellist Marc Johnson, after study at the Eastman School, continued at Indiana University with Janos Starker and Josef Gingold. The youngest member of the Rochester Philharmonic at age eighteen, he later joined the Pittsburgh Symphony. Then, for thirty-five years as cellist of the renowned Vermeer Quartet, he appeared regularly in the world’s musical capitals on five continents, and made extensive tours yearly on both sides of the Atlantic. He has been active in the commissioning of new works for both cello and string quartet, and has recorded for CRI Records. With pianist Katherine Johnson, he co-directs Bay Chamber Concerts, the Next Generation, free seminars for Maine students. He is professor of cello at Boston University and plays an instrument by Francesco Stradivarius, c. 1730.