Scott Kluksdahl (cello), made his debut as soloist with the San Francisco Symphony, and has been heard as chamber musician, recitalist and soloist in the United States, Europe, Israel, and Central and South America for the past three decades. His particular interest in modern music has led to significant affiliations with Robert Helps, Richard Wernick, Richard Brodhead, David Del Tredici and Augusta Read Thomas. Currently a member of the Veronika String Quartet, Scott was a founding member of the Lions Gate Trio, with whom he performed and recorded for twenty years. He has recorded for the CRI, Albany, Triton, Pierian, Nimbus, and Centaur labels. He serves as professor of cello and chamber music at the University of South Florida, where he is a designated Venette and Theodore Ashford-Askounes Distinguished Scholar. Scott oversees ‘If Music Be the Food…’ in Tampa, a collaboration between the Tampa Bay Harvest, Palma Ceia Presbyterian Church, and Florida west-coast classical musicians and friends, where chamber music is the agent for raising both attention and support for hunger in the community.