Janet Horvath (Minneapolis MN'), 'associate principal cello of the Minnesota Orchestra for three decades, is also a soloist, writer, and award-winning advocate for injury prevention. A trailblazer in speaking and writing about the physical stresses experienced by musicians, she received the 2001 Performing Arts Medical Association's, Richard Lederman Award at the nineteenth Annual Symposium on Medical Problems of Musicians and Dancers, Aspen, Colorado.