Karine Stone (Kaleidoscope Orchestra) Karine Stone has played the violin since the age of two. She has a Bachelor's and a Master's degree in violin performance from the Eastman School of Music. In the summer of 1996 she played operas in the Schlossfestspiel Orchestra in Heidelberg, Germany. For three years, from 1998-2001 she was a member of the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra. She has performed frequently as Acting Concertmaster of the Erie Philharmonic. She has performed in the first violins of the Santo Domingo Music Festival (2003) under the direction of Philippe Entremonte, and in the first violins of the Skaneateles Festival (2002). Currently she performs in the second violin section of the RPO, in the first violins of the Rochester Oratorio Society, adnd is an active freelance and chamber musician. Through her freelance work, Karine has performed as a backup musician with artists such as Josh Groben, The TransSiberian Orchestra, Harry Connick Jr., Jonny Mathis, Wayne Newton, and the Capital Saxophone Quartet. Karine is the Director and Violin I of the Hastings Chamber Players, and the violinist of the Ethos Duo. From 2002 through 2005 Karine performed as the first violinist of the RPO Educational Quartet, a group dedicated to bringing classical music to children in the Rochester City Schools. Most recently, she is performing chamber music and lecture recitals as the first violinist of Quartsemble, a chamber music gruop she formed with her husband, Diego Garcia.

Karine has also worked extensively as a teacher, conductor and an administrator. In 1997 she was on the violin faculty of the Idaho State Civic Symphony String Festival and in 1998 she was the Dean of the Quartet Program at Bucknell University. Karine is committed to sharing music with children of all ages and for seven years has taught approximately 30 students in her private violin studio in Rochester, New York. For six seasons, she has conducted the Cobblestone Chamber Ensemble, a 30 piece intergenerational orchestra, also in Rochester, New York. In the fall of 2005 she will begin conducting the Eastman Kaleidoscope Community Orchestra with her husband, Diego Garcia. She loves most of all to create beautiful sounds on the violin and share her love of great music through teaching, conducting, and performing.