Born in Puerto Rico, cellist Javier Caballero is a versatile performer, educator, and arts administrator based in Boston. Equally at home performing chamber music with Shelter Music Boston, contemporary works with Castle of Our Skins, musical theater shows at SpeakEasy Stage Company, and string quartets on white water rafting tours with Dvorak Expeditions, Mr. Caballero has also recorded several albums with Middle Eastern, New Age, Balkan and Indie Rock groups and has been featured on PBS and QVC. Performance tours have taken him to China, as well as Palestine and Israel as part of the Al Kamandjati Music School. His principal teachers include Rhonda Rider and Scott Kluksdahl.
He has previously served as faculty in the Brookline and Watertown public schools, Artistic Director of Project STEP, and Scholarship & Recruitment Manager at NPR’s From the Top. Mr. Caballero maintains a private studio and spends his summers teaching at Point Counterpoint, Apple Hill, and Boston University’s Tanglewood Institute’s Junior Strings Intensive summer music festivals.
