Winner of the 2007 J.B. Watkins Prize from the Canada Council for the Arts, cellist Caroline Stinson was born in Edmonton, Canada and lives in New York City. As a performer, she appears throughout Canada, the United States and Europe as a soloist and chamber music artist. Known for her expressive and personal interpretation of new works, Ms. Stinson is sought after by orchestras and fellow musicians for performances of both traditional and contemporary repertoire. Her performance credits include Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall, Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall, New York’s Museum of Modern Art’s Summergarden Series, Boston’s Gardner Museum, Washington D.C.’s Smithsonian in the United States; Germany’s Koelner Philharmonie, Switzerland’s Lucerne Festival and France’s Cité de la Musique and Theatre at Rennes, in Europe, and the Centennial Centre and Winspear Halls in Canada. As an advocate of new music she has worked with composers John Harbison, George Rochberg and Steven Stucky, and has recorded for Albany, Koch, Phoenix and Naxos. Caroline is a member of Open End (a new music and improvisation group founded with her husband, composer Andrew Waggoner), CELLO, the Contrasts Quartet, the Athabasca String Trio and formerly was a member of the Cassatt Quartet. Her teachers include Alan Harris (CIM), Maria Kliegel (Germany), Joel Krosnick (Juilliard) and Tanya Prochazka. Caroline is on faculty and coordinates the chamber music program at the Setnor School of Music at Syracuse University.