Dr. Christina J Wright-Ivanova
Dr. Christina Wright-Ivanova, hailed by critics as “a brilliant pianist” (Wiener Zeitung, Vienna) and an “ideal partner” (Huffington Post), is an Associate Professor of Music and Coordinator of Keyboard Studies at Keene State College. From 2014-2024 she served as the Artistic Director for the North End Music & Performing Arts ‘Winter Concert Series’ in Boston. She recently held the Interim Artistic Director position at the Redfern Arts Center and served on faculty as an art song coach for graduate students at New England Conservatory.
Dr. Wright-Ivanova spends her summers at Colorado’s Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice and has premiered over 150 works by living composers. She has performed solo and collaborative new works in venues such as Boston’s Symphony Hall, the 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, and in Concert Series across the US. 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 Britten-Pears (UK), Crear (Scotland) and Avaloch Farm Music Institute (NH) Fellow, she pursues multimedia and diverse projects in both academic and performance arenas.
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 members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony, Las Vegas Philharmonic, Civic Orchestra of Chicago, Kansas City Symphony, San Antonio Symphony, Boulder Philharmonic, and with the Apple Hill, Lydian, and Mivos Quartets. She regularly adjudicates chamber music and piano festivals nationally and internationally, and has given master classes across the US, Europe, and China. A recent release of diverse American cello and piano music, ‘American Vignettes’, with cellist Aron Zelkowicz is heard on Toccata Classics to critical acclaim.
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 supporting DEIB initiatives, immigration, social justice, and peace.
Previous Faculty Employments: New England Conservatory; UMass Amherst; University of Nevada Las Vegas. Previous Staff Employments: Boston University; Dolora Zajick’s Institute for Young Dramatic Voices; BU Tanglewood Institute; AIMS (Austria). Recordings: Toccata Classics, 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