Alejandro Quintero Cashore, Cello

Alejandro Quintero Cashore is an 18-year-old cellist from East Greenwich. He is a member of the Rhode Island Philharmonic Youth Symphony Orchestra, and has earned principal cellist for the RIMEA (Rhode Island Music Educators Association) and All-State Orchestras in 2023-2026. Highly passionate about community service and social justice, he’s spent over 100 hours volunteering and working at Community MusicWorks in Providence and has served as the president of Bishop Hendricken High School’s affinity group, The Brotherhood, since 2022, where he has organized school wide luncheons attended by 120+ peers of color and launched a Civil Rights Movement student immersion trip, whose inaugural group of 12 students traveled to sites like the Equal Justice Initiative Legacy Sites in Montgomery. Summer festivals include Carnegie Hall’s National Youth Orchestra (NYO2) in 2025, where he toured in Edinburgh, Scotland, and performed at Carnegie Hall, and the Sphinx Performance Academy at Berklee School of Music in Boston and CU Boulder School of Music in 2025 and 2024, respectively. Most recently, he was awarded Hendricken’s Leonard Bernstein Musicianship Award, the Daniel and Dorothy Harrop Scholarship for Excellence in Music, and a gold medal on the Level 4 National Spanish Exam.

2026 Concerts: Generations June 1, 2026