​Tom Valdez is a cellist, teacher, and composer based in the Greater New York area.

Performance credits: Mostly Modern Orchestra, National String Symphonia, New Jersey Festival Orchestra, Loudoun Symphony Orchestra, White Plains Performing Arts Center, Evil Woman: The American ELO, Shenandoah Summer Music Theater

Tom holds a M.M. Performance in Multi-Style Strings from New Jersey City and a B.M. Performance from Shenandoah Conservatory. He currently lives in East Orange, NJ with his cat, Cosmo.

photo credit: Ethan Gross