Lark Chamber Artists
Core Artists

Winner of the 2007 J.B. Watkins Prize from the Canada Council for the Arts, Canadian cellist Caroline Stinson lives in New York City and 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 for performances of both traditional and contemporary repertoire and has been a repeat soloist with the Syracuse Symphony under Daniel Hege, has performed at the Manchester Cello Festival in England, 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.

In collaborative settings, Caroline has been invited to perform in New York and on tour with Accroche Note of France, the Bang On A Can All-Stars, Continuum, the Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players, Sequitur, Ensemble Pi and NewBand (the Harry Partch Ensemble), and has been fortunate to perform with many leading artists in the field including Pierre Boulez, Pinchas Zukerman, guitarist Bill Frisell, violinist Andrew Dawes and pianist Gloria Cheng. An advocate of new music (and a member of the Cassatt Quartet from 2000-3) she has worked with composers Ross Bauer, George Crumb, Peter Eötvös, John Harbison, Aaron Jay Kernis, John Link, George Rochberg, Steven Stucky, Andrew Waggoner, Anna Weesner and Joan Tower, and has recorded for Albany, Koch, Phoenix and Naxos. Caroline is excited to join the Lark Quartet and Chamber Artists this season and continues as a founding member of Open End (a new music and improvisation group formed with her husband, Andrew Waggoner), CELLO and Contrasts. Her teachers have been Alan Harris (Cleveland), Maria Kliegel (Germany), Joel Krosnick (Juilliard) and Tanya Prochazka. Caroline is a teaching assistant to Joel Krosnick at the Juilliard School and is on faculty and coordinates the chamber music program at the Setnor School of Music at Syracuse University.