Violinist Elena Urioste is well known as a soloist and as a chamber music collaborator with various players, including her husband, pianist Tom Poster. She is a co-founder of the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective.
Urioste was born in Hartford, Connecticut, in April of 1986 but grew up in the Philadelphia suburb of Lansdale. Her parents enjoyed classical music but were not musicians themselves. When Urioste was two, she viewed violinist Itzhak Perlman's appearance on the children's television show Sesame Street and asked her parents for a violin. After several years, they gave i...