Christina studied Modern & Medieval Languages at Pembroke College, Cambridge and with Joan Dickson & Steven Doane in London. She has performed as soloist and chamber musician in Russia, Canada, Germany, Spain and across the UK, and orchestrally throughout Europe.
Festival appearances include Rydale Festival, St Andrews Festival, Edinburgh Fringe, Hadley Festival, Hull Freedom Festival and Festivál de Músicas Actuales in Bilbao. Concerto performances include Elgar with Hessle Sinfonia & UMIST Orchestra, Dvorak with Oldham Symphony Orchestra, Schumann with Pembroke College Orchestra, Tchaikovsky Rococo with Whitgift Chamber Orchestra & Academy of St Olave’s, Tavener’s Protecting Veil with the Academy of St Olave’s and the Honegger, Dvorak & Elgar concertos with Scarborough Symphony Orchestra.
As cellist of the Juventus Quartet she took the quartet prize at Stage 91, winning a tour to the Canary Isles and playing around the UK. Over the last 30 years she has been, for various lengths of time, principal cellist of Cambridge Strings, Kentish Opera, Cameo Opera and Sinfonia UK. She was a founder member of the Kettles Yard and Portumnus Ensembles, performing premieres by British, Chinese and Canadian composers.
Away from classical music, Christina has collaborated on Barbara Dickson’s 2012 album ‘For Each and Everyone’, she has worked with Juno Award-winning Canadian Jazz Pianist David Braid on several projects and she appears on Pavey Ark’s second album ‘More Time, More Speed’. She has also participated in numerous improvisation projects, working in particular in Montréal with Algerian marionettist Salim Hammad, in London with Turkish artist Sumer Başak, in York with physical theatre director, Jote Prakash Singh and in Hull with the Broken Orchestra.
Aside from performing, Christina enjoys a rich and varied life as a teacher at St Cuthbert’s RC Academy Trust and York & Hull Universities, an adjudicator for various local competitions and as trustee & artistic director of the Yorkshire Wolds Music Foundation & Festival.
She plays a lovely cello by Nigel Harris, made in 2004.
