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Christina Wilson B.Mus PPRNCM Mezzo-Soprano T: +61 2 6125 5770 F: +61 2 6248 0997 E: Christina.Wilson@anu.edu.au

Possessing "una voce stupenda" (Corriere di Sienna) Christina Wilson graduated with distinction from the Canberra Institute of the Arts, receiving the Friends Prize for the most outstanding graduate. As winner of the Marianne Mathy Award and most of the major prizes of the 1990 Australian Singing Competition and recipient of an Australia Council grant she went to the UK, studying at the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester and the National Opera Studio in London. She was further supported by the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden and the major award of the Australian Musical Foundation in London.

She has been broadcast and appeared in concerts and recitals in Australia, USA, Europe and throughout the United Kingdom. She has sung as soloist and recitalist at the Royal Albert Hall, the Wigmore Hall, Canterbury Cathedral, the Temple Square, the Paris Conservatoire, and St John's Smith Square. At the Deal Festival in 1999 Christina gave the world premiere performance of David Matthews' A Book of Hours, and appeared in concert with Richard Rodney Bennett in the Sounds New festival.

Concert engagements have included Elgar's Sea Pictures, Mahler's Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen and Rückert Lieder and Brahms' Vier ernste Gesange performed with the London Mozart Players. Recordings include Elgar's The Music Makers, reviewed by the Elgar Society "...a voice to drool over: powerful, majestic...perfect 'line', impeccable diction... "

Christina made her Glyndebourne Festival debut in 2002 as Clitemnestre Iphigenie en Aulide (Gluck). She has also performed Rosina The Barber of Seville and the title role of La Cenerentola at the Mananan International Festival; Marthe Faust, Wexford festival Opera, and Cherubino Le Nozze di Figaro for the State Opera of South Australia. Other roles include Clarice La pietra del Paragone, Dorabella Così fan tutte, Dido Dido and Aeneas, Ramiro La finta Giardiniera , Dryade Ariadne auf Naxos, Prince Orlovsky Die Fledermaus and Carmen.

In 2000 Christina was invited to sing in "A Service for Australia" at Westminster Abbey, a broadcast commemoration of the Centenary of the Australian Constitution, in the presence of HM the Queen, the Australian Prime Minister, John Howard, Australian State Premiers and former Prime Ministers. She has also appeared many times at Australia House in London; as soloist in The Messiah, in a concert celebrating Dame Joan Sutherland's 70th Birthday and a gala concert in the presence of HRH Prince Charles, all conducted by Sir Richard Bonynge.

Since her return to Australia in 2003 she has been broadcast in recital on ABC FM's “Sunday Live”, presented recitals for Art Song Canberra, the University of Newcastle Conservatorium and the ANU School of Music. She has appeared as a soloist with the Canberra Choral Society, the Orianna Chorale, SCUNA, Newcastle Festival Opera, the Beethoven Society in Vivaldi's Gloria in St Andrew's Cathedral, Sydney, and performed Mahler's Rückert Lieder with the National Capital Orchestra.

School of Music faculty member since 2008.