Bang on a Can

Caroline Stinson (cello) Winner of the 2007 J.B.C. Watkins Prize from the Canada Council for the Arts, Edmonton-born cellist Caroline Stinson resides in New York and appears each season in Canada, the United States and Europe as a soloist and chamber artist. This summer, she performed Elliott Carter's Triple Duo with Pierre Boulez at the Lucerne Festival in Switzerland, and will appear in recital this season in New York, Oregon, California, Seattle and as soloist with the Syracuse Symphony. In premieres, recordings and performances, Caroline has worked with composers including George Crumb, Peter Eötvös, John Harbison, Aaron Jay Kernis, George Rochberg and Steven Stucky, and from 2000-3, as a member of the Cassatt String Quartet, premiered over two dozen new works in addition to performing the Slee Beethoven Cycle. While studying in Cologne, she performed throughout Europe and was awarded first prize in the Hohnen Foundation Cello Competition. She is a member of CELLO, the Contrasts Quartet, and the new music and improvisation group Open End, which she founded with her husband, composer Andrew Waggoner. Her teachers include Alan Harris (CIM), Maria Kliegel (Germany), Joel Krosnick (Juilliard) and Tanya Prochazka. She has recorded for Albany, Bridge, Koch, and Naxos, and is on the faculty of Syracuse University (NY).