Diana Wilson Stone, conductor for the News Horizons Orchestra, is a retired music teacher who taught choral, general music, band and orchestra in the public schools of Vermont. She also taught private lessons. She played 1st and 2nd violin as well as principal viola in the Vermont Philharmonic Orchestra for 30 years. She also directed and played violin for a number of musicals in the Barre Opera House in Barre, VT.

Diana and her husband Brian moved to Newton, NC in 2007. She played viola in the Western Piedmont Symphony and for the Hickory Choral Society. She presently conducts and teaches the New Horizons String Orchestra which meets weekly at the Salt Block in Hickory, NC. She is the founder and violinist for Stone’s Throw, a Celtic trio which is based in Hickory, performing throughout the local area. An avid chamber music player, she has attended the Lake Placid Chamber Music Seminar and the Virginia Suzuki Institute. Diana lives in Newton, NC with her husband Brian, where her two daughters and five grandchildren also reside.