DOROTHY STONE, flutist, composer and conductor has been active on the vanguard of the international contemporary music scene for over fifteen years and has been consistently hailed for her virtuosic and persuasive interpretations of the latest literature.

Ms. Stone is a founding member of both the highly acclaimed Ear Unit, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art,) and the Southwest Chamber Music Society. She has performed as soloist throughout the United States and Europe, including the Witten Neue Musik Tage sponsored by the WDR (West German Radio), the Ars Musica Festival in Brussels, de Ijsbreaker in Amsterdam, the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria, the Holland Festival, the Aspen Music Festival, the Tanglewood Festival, the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, the San Francisco Symphony's "New and Unusual" Series, the Fromm Series at Harvard University, the Arnold Schoenberg Institute, Monday Evening Concerts, the Ojai Festival, National Public Radio, and WGBH's international Art of the States Program, among others.

Ms. Stone has recorded for Crystal, New Albion, Cambria, Newport Classics, Tzadik, and the Nonesuch Record labels, and the Voyager label has issued in CD-Rom format Morton Subotnick's All My Hummingbirds Have Alibis. Her most recent release is a solo album for New World Records entitled None but the Lonely Flute with works by Milton Babbitt, Stephen L. Mosko (both written especially for her), John Cage, Morton Feldman, and Kathryn Alexander. In its review the Amercian Record Guide commended it as "An excellent disc. Dorothy Stone's disc of mostly high modernistic flute music is a very satisfying listening experience. Her playing is clear and expressive and she handles the considerable difficulties of this music with aplomb and conviction."

Ms. Stone has received a Bachelor of Music Degree from the Manhattan School of Music and a Master of Fine Arts Degree from the California Institute of the Arts. Her principal flute teachers have been Harold Bennett, Harvey Sollberger, Ann Deiner Giles, Thomas Nyfenger and Juilius Baker. Her principal composition teachers have been Stephen L. Mosko, Mel Powell, Leonard Stein and Morton Subotnick.