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Praised for her vibrant lyricism, fresh interpretations and expressive performances, cellist Caroline Stinson is sought after by orchestras and fellow musicians in the US, Canada and Europe as a soloist, recitalist and chamber musician for concerts of both traditional and contemporary repertoire. Ms. Stinson's varied invitations include projects at Carnegie's Weill and Zankel Halls, Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall, the Museum of Modern Art's Summergarden Series, (Le) Poisson Rouge and Bargemusic in New York, Boston's Gardner Museum, Washington D.C.'s Smithsonian in the United States; the Koelner Philharmonie, Lucerne Festival and Cité de la Musique in Europe, and the Centennial Centre and Winspear Halls in Canada. Performances in recent seasons have included concerto performances with the Alberta Baroque Ensemble and the Syracuse Symphony, recitals in New York City for Bargemusic and Wednesdays at One, appearances at the Lucerne Festival in Switzerland with Pierre Boulez conducting Elliott Carter's Triple Duo, and as a returning featured artist for the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra's International New Music Festival, where she appeared in multiple performances broadcast nationally on CBC Radio. A champion of contemporary music, Ms. Stinson has commissioned concerti, works for cello solo and with electronics, in addition to chamber music through her work with the Lark Quartet, Open End (a new music and improvisation group she founded with her husband and composer, Andrew Waggoner) and the cello quartet, CELLO. She has performed dozens of premieres in both North America and Europe and has worked closely with composers Pierre Boulez, Peter Eötvös, John Harbison, Aaron Jay Kernis, Paul Moravec, Steven Stucky, Joan Tower, Andrew Waggoner and Chen-Yi. As a soloist, she has performed with the Banff Festival and Cleveland Institute of Music Orchestras, the Alberta Baroque Ensemble, and the Interlochen World Youth and Syracuse Symphonies. She has performed and toured with a multitude of ensembles including the Bang On a Can All-Stars, ISCM League of Composers and Continuum of New York City and Accroche Note of France.

Last season Caroline performed the double-premiere of a new concerto for cello and winds by Steven Bryant with the Cornell Wind Ensemble and the Ridgewood Concert Band, a solo tour of Western Canada with recitals, concerti and the premiere a new work for cello and electronics by T. Patrick Carrabre, in addition to chamber music performances in Carnegie's Zankel Hall, CalArts, Music at Kohl Mansion and Carmel in California. This season sees the release of Caroline's debut solo CD "Lines" on Albany Records, completed through the Juilliard Artist Diploma Program, and is reviewed in Fanfare Magazine: "She has it all, fabulous tone, great technique, innate musicality, and a real sense of how to project a wide variety of contemporary music." Ms. Stinson will celebrate the release both in New York City and presented by the Syracuse Society for New Music in the spring.

Caroline has recorded more than a dozen CDs for the Naxos, Albany, Koch International, Bridge, Phoenix, Capstone and Innova labels. The diverse works recorded include the Popper Requiem for three celli and orchestra with Maria Kliegel for Naxos, premiere recordings of Steven Stucky's string quartet (Nell'ombra, nella luce) with the Cassatt Quartet, Gabriela Frank's piano quintet with Meme, solo and chamber works by Andrew Waggoner with Open End for Albany Records as well as Aaron Jay Kernis' Ballad for cello and piano, Trio In Red and Still Movement with Hymn with Contrasts on Phoenix Records.

Ms. Stinson is the recipient of the 2007 J.B.C. Watkins Prize in Music from the Canada Council, first prize in the Hohnen Foundation Cello Competition of Germany, and the American Music Award from the Seventeen/GM National Concerto Competition in the United States. She is the grateful recipient of prizes, grants and scholarships from the Alberta Heritage Scholarship Fund, the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, the Winspear Fund, the Anne Burrows Foundation of Edmonton and the Canada Council for the Arts, as well as fellowships from the Aspen, Lucerne, Verbier and Sarasota Festivals, and the Piatigorsky Seminar for Cellists in Los Angeles. While living in Germany for three years, she studied in courses with Natalia Gutman, Frans Helmerson, Boris Pergamenschikow and Siegfried Palm. She was a student of Tanya Prochazka in Edmonton and earned degrees with honours at the Interlochen Arts Academy, the Cleveland Institute of Music with Alan Harris, the Hochschule für Musik Köln (First Prize) as a student of Maria Kliegel, and completed her Master's Degree as an Irene Diamond and Genevieve Kniese Chaudhuri Fellow and her Artist Diploma as a Jerome Greene Fellow at the Juilliard School with Joel Krosnick. In additional to her active performance career, Caroline Stinson is on the faculty of the Setnor School of Music at Syracuse University in cello and chamber music, and in New York is a teaching assistant to Joel Krosnick at The Juilliard School. Born and raised in Edmonton, Canada, Caroline lives in New York City with her husband and son, Henry.

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Praised for her vibrant lyricism, fresh interpretations and expressive performances, cellist Caroline Stinson is sought after by orchestras and fellow musicians in the US, Canada and Europe as a soloist, recitalist and chamber musician for concerts of both traditional and contemporary repertoire. Ms. Stinson's solo invitations include the Museum of Modern Art's Summergarden Series, Poisson Rouge and Bargemusic in New York; Cité de la Musique Strasbourg and the Lucerne Festival in Europe, and the Centennial Centre and Winspear Halls in Canada. As a soloist she has performed with the Banff Festival and Cleveland Institute of Music Orchestras, the Alberta Baroque Ensemble, and the Interlochen World Youth and Syracuse Symphonies. A champion of contemporary music, Ms. Stinson has commissioned concerti from Steven Bryant (Cornell Wind Ensemble) and Andrew Waggoner (Syracuse Symphony), works for cello with electronics from Patrick Carrabre and John Link, in addition to chamber music with the Lark Quartet and her new music and improvisation group, Open End. Performance highlights include Elliott Carter's "Triple Duo" with conductor Pierre Boulez in New York and Europe, the premiere of Paul Moravec's Piano Quintet with Jeremy Denk and the Lark Quartet in New York, and performing Esa-Pekka Salonen's "YTA III" for solo cello, at the composer's recommendation at Scandinavia House in New York. Caroline's début CD, Lines, was released late this summer on Albany Records and was reviewed in Fanfare: "She has it all, fabulous tone, great technique, innate musicality, and a real sense of how to project a wide variety of contemporary music." Caroline holds degrees from the Cleveland Institute where she studied with Alan Harris, the Hochschule für Musik Köln with Maria Kliegel and a Master's and Artist Diploma from The Juilliard School where she studied with Joel Krosnick. Caroline is a teaching assistant to Joel Krosnick at the Juilliard School and is on the cello and chamber music faculty of the Setnor School of Music at Syracuse University.