Kristina Reiko Cooper passionately embraces her art. Her newest recording project, the groundbreaking and thrilling Stone and Steel, offers a scintillating combination of the ancient and the modern. Scored for cello, piano and percussion, Kristina and her brilliant colleagues re-work some of the very old classics –Gregorian chants, songs of the ever popular Elizabethan composer John Dowland and the haunting aria from Dido and Aeneus, Dido’s Lament. The enchanting Award winning cellist Kristina Reiko Cooper has won widespread acclaim for her musical versatility, her virtuosity, her charismatic stage presence and her passionate intensity.