Cellist Oliver Aldort, a native of Eastsound, was selected to become a Fellow of the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s Tanglewood Music Center.

He is returning Fellow of the BSO’s summer music academy for emerging professional musicians of exceptional ability.

He served as assistant principal cellist in the July 14 Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra performance of works by Sarasate, Haydn and Tchaikovsky, which will be broadcast on PBS channel’s Great Performances on Aug. 10.

This season, as part of the TMCO, Aldort has worked with world famous conductors, including Gunther Schuller and Miguel Harth-Bedoya.

Throughout the season, Aldort will perform in a number of other concerts with the TMCO and in the Festival of Contemporary Music.