Dr. Christina J Wright-Ivanova
Dr. Christina Wright-Ivanova, hailed by critics as “a brilliant pianist” (Wiener Zeitung, Vienna) with a “warm and reassuring sound” (Boston Intelligencer) is currently Associate Professor of Music and Coordinator of Keyboard Studies at Keene State College. She also currently serves as the Interim Artistic Director at the Redfern Arts Center in Keene, NH.
Dr. Wright-Ivanova is on faculty at the Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice (New England Conservatory) and has premiered over 125 works by living composers. She has performed solo and collaborative new works in venues such as Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Berklee School of Music, MIT, The Harvard Club, Opera America (NY), Jordan Hall, Tanglewood’s Ozawa Hall, Old North Meeting House, and in the Clutch New Music Series in Austin TX and the NEXTET series in Las Vegas. Recent international concert performances at the Berlin Art Song Festival, Teatro Sociale in Como, Reaktorhalle (Munich), Humboldt University, École Normale Supérieure Lyon, Joanneumsviertel Museum, Amici della Musica Paisello Concert Hall (Lucera), and Schloss Frohnburg (Salzburg).
As a chamber musician, she has been heard in over 25 countries throughout North & South America, UK, Europe, Asia and Australia, appearing in recital with many established artists, including Tchaikovsky Competition Bronze-medal cellist Bion Tsang, virtuoso violinist Yevgeny Kutik, Israel Philharmonic violinist Sharon Cohen, and Joachim International Violin competition winner Dami Kim. She enjoys frequent performances with orchestral musicians, including members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Las Vegas Philharmonic, Civic Orchestra of Chicago, Kansas City Symphony, San Antonio Symphony, and Boulder Philharmonic. She regularly adjudicates chamber music and piano festivals nationally and internationally, and began serving as the President for the New Hampshire Music Teacher’s Association (NHMTA) in Summer 2022.
She collaborates frequently with singers from the Metropolitan Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Greek National Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Lithuanian National Opera, Calgary Opera, and the Boston Lyric Opera, and has been the official pianist for the Metropolitan Opera Auditions. As a member of song team, duo au courant, with mezzo-soprano Stephanie Weiss, she tours regularly and presents Art Song with a focus on issues of immigration, social justice and peace. For the past eight seasons, she has been the Artistic Director for North End Music and Performings Arts Center’s ‘Winter Concert Series’ in Boston, MA.
Previous Employment: UMass Amherst; University of Nevada Las Vegas; Dolora Zajick’s Institute for Young Dramatic Voices; BU Tanglewood Institute; AIMS (Austria); Boston University. Artistic Director: ‘Winter Concert Series’ in Boston (NEMPAC); Recordings: Albany Records, New World Records, ARS Produktion, MSR Classics.
Degrees: University of Texas at Austin (DMA), New England Conservatory (MM), University of Victoria, Canada (BM). www.christinajwright.com