A native of Warsaw, Poland, Karina Slupski holds her Bachelor’s and Master‘s of Music degrees in violin performance from the University of Southern California School of Music in Los Angeles. She has performed with Los Angeles Opera and the Pacific Symphony and was a guest principal second violinist of the Utah Chamber Artists. She has recorded soundtracks for various motion picture and television soundtracks while in Los Angeles. After moving to the Vancouver area she became an active freelance musician with major local orchestras including Vancouver Symphony and Vancouver Opera. She has also devoted her time teaching young violinists, many of whom moved on to study violin performance at major universities, including McGill, University of Western Ontario, UBC, Temple University, Victoria Conservatory, Koninklijk Conservatorium den Haag, and Glenn Gould Professional School, among others. Karina is a founding member of the Sempre String Quartet and gives solo and chamber music recitals, as time permits.