CHRISTINE MOORE VASSALLO

Style: Opera; Folk; Rock; Classical; World; Pop; Musical Theatre

Title: Soprano, Voice Teacher

Bio:

Praised for her lush sound and powerful expression, soprano Christine Moore Vassallo is a versatile performer with equal authority in opera, oratorio, art song, and contemporary music. Her career includes engagements as Mimi in La Bohème over several seasons with the Leipzig Opera in Germany, where she was praised by the Leipziger Volkszeitung as “a warm, dark voice rings out as Mimi.” A Regional Finalist (Pacific Region) in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, the California native has sung the title roles in Madama Butterfly, Aida, Ariadne auf Naxos and Suor Angelica, Alice Ford in Falstaff, Micaela in Carmen, Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, the Countess in Le Nozze di Figaro, and Leonora in Il Trovatore. Christine is active in the performance of art song in all languages, with a particular focus on Spanish, and has sung in several concerts in Granada and Madrid with the Festival de Canción Española. Christine has premiered many new works by living composers, including Richard Thompson's song cycle The Shadow of Dawn at Merkin Concert Hall and the New York premiere of his opera The Mask in the Mirror, Andrew Rudin’s Masha’s Arias, and works by Michael Rose, Kareem Roustom, Richard Cameron-Wolfe, Steve Gerber and Zaid Jabri with the Brooklyn New Music Collective. In 2008 she sang the world premiere of Mohammed Fairouz’s Tahwidah, written for her and esteemed composer and clarinetist Kinan Azmeh, and in 2013 curated and performed in a concert at the Library at Lincoln Center dedicated to classical works by Arab composers, entitled “Nearer to East: Chamber Music from the Arab World.” Recordings include “Christine Moore – Arias” and the recently released From "Al Andalus to the Americas – An Odyssey of Spanish Song" (Meridian Records UK, 2024), lauded by BBC3 and Classical Music Daily, among other media. She is currently working on an art song project with celebrated composer and pianist Patricio Molina on his setting of poems by Arab women living in Spain’s medieval Al Andalus period.

As a voice teacher, Christine has over 25 years of experience in the private studio realm and was on faculty for 14 years with the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music. She teaches the classical bel canto and CCM methods including fundamental pedagogical concepts that apply to all genres, including jazz, gospel, r&b, rock, heavy metal, arabic and other world music. Several of her students and former students have won or placed in such competitions as the Schmidt Vocal Arts, YoungArts, Opera Index, Laffont Metropolitan Opera competition, National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS), and Hal Leonard, and have been accepted with scholarship to such institutions as Juilliard, Oberlin, Cincinnati CCM, Manhattan School of Music, Mannes, Eastman, and Montclair, among others. Since 2023, she has been a voice instructor with Montclair State University’s Cali Pathways Program, and since 2019, a mentor-teacher with ArtSmart, an organization co-founded by tenor Michael Fabiano that provides voice lessons and mentorship to high-school students in underserved neighborhoods in NYC and cities nationwide. Other programs where Christine has been engaged as a Teaching Artist include American Voices, a U.S. non-profit organization that promotes American music and brings musical instruction to hard-to-access countries, and the Lunigiana International Music Festival in Fivizzano, Italy, both since 2018. She has been a vocal judge for the SAS Performing Arts Voice Competition since 2022 and is co-founder and director of Lyric Artists of New York (LANY), a singing collective that provides performance opportunities and stage experience to both young and seasoned singers. She has been a voice teacher with the Queens Summer Vocal Institute since 2023. www.christinemoorevoicelessons.com

Voice Type: Soprano

Music Styles Taught: Opera; Folk; Rock; Classical; World; Pop; Musical Theatre

Availability: I am available as a performer; I am currently accepting private students; I am available as a clinician or presenter; I accept students through a college or university program

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