Caroline Campbell
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Caroline Campbell is an American violinist, and member of the Sonus Quartet
Sonus Quartet
Sonus Quartet is a Los Angeles based string quartet whose members include Caroline Campbell , Kathleen Sloan , Neel Hammond , and Vanessa Freebairn-Smith...

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Early Life

Campbell was born in Albany, NY, and lived in Hawaii
Hawaii
Hawaii is the newest of the 50 U.S. states , and is the only U.S. state made up entirely of islands. It is the northernmost island group in Polynesia, occupying most of an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean, southwest of the continental United States, southeast of Japan, and northeast of...

 and Nevada
Nevada
Nevada is a state in the western, mountain west, and southwestern regions of the United States. With an area of and a population of about 2.7 million, it is the 7th-largest and 35th-most populous state. Over two-thirds of Nevada's people live in the Las Vegas metropolitan area, which contains its...

 before relocating to Palo Alto, California
Palo Alto, California
Palo Alto is a California charter city located in the northwest corner of Santa Clara County, in the San Francisco Bay Area of California, United States. The city shares its borders with East Palo Alto, Mountain View, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, Stanford, Portola Valley, and Menlo Park. It is...

 in the sixth grade. Campbell began playing violin at a young age, studying the Suzuki method at age three. In 1998, she was selected as a Presidential Scholar in the arts, and was the only classical musician in that year's group.

After attending college at the Cleveland Institute of Music, Campbell transferred to Stanford University
Stanford University
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...

, where she worked with violin instructor Gennady Kleyman, and majored in computer programming, logic, linguistics, and psychology. In 2004, she graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a BS in Symbolic Systems and an MA in Sociology.

Career

She is currently the first violinist with the Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
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 based Sonus Quartet
Sonus Quartet
Sonus Quartet is a Los Angeles based string quartet whose members include Caroline Campbell , Kathleen Sloan , Neel Hammond , and Vanessa Freebairn-Smith...

. Campbell has performed on recent film scores such as The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" is a short story written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and first published in Colliers Magazine on May 27, 1922. It was subsequently anthologized in his book, Tales of the Jazz Age, which is occasionally published as The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz...

 and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is a 2009 American science fiction-action film directed by Michael Bay and produced by Steven Spielberg. It is the sequel to the 2007 film Transformers and the second installment in the live-action Transformers series...

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