Christine Johnson enjoys a varied career in singing, acting, and Alexander Technique instruction, and enjoyed many months of making music in Germany in 2010. Her brother accompanied her on guitar for her first performances in high school, which eventually led to a master’s degree in vocal performance from Washington University in St. Louis and an interest in the music of the Baroque and Renaissance. Christine's passion is collaboration - to that end, she is committed to the performance of chamber music, specifically baroque and renaissance songs and cantatas, and art songs of all periods. She has performed and studied early music in Washington State, Cambridge, Oberlin, and St. Louis – where she appeared regularly with the baroque chamber ensembles the Kingsbury Ensemble and Collegium Vocale.
Roles include Liza Elliott in Kurt Weill's Lady in the Dark, Irene Molloy in Hello, Dolly!, and Helena Landless in The Mystery of Edwin Drood with Overdue Theatre Company in St. Louis; The Rose Seller in Oliver with the Alpha Players of Florissant; Clorinda in Monteverdi's Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda with the Kingsbury Ensemble; and the Queen in Hildegard von Bingen's Ordo Virtutum with the St. Louis Women's Chorale. Christine sang with the Bachchor Siegen (Germany), played Faith in the award-winning Limeybirds, and was a member of Project Improv-St. Louis. She currently sings soprano in the choir of the Church of St. Michael and St. George in Clayton.
Favorite projects include her musical experience in Germany, her work with Overdue and Saint Louis composer and collaborateur Mary Sutherland, and Commedia dell'arte and baroque opera with the Kingsbury Ensemble. In the summer of 2008 Christine traveled to France to perform with this group for the Festival de Musique Ancienne. Christine has six recitals to her credit, most recently with Peter Scholl in Siegen Germany last May. She is also featured on a CD of Mary Sutherland's songs.
Christine pursued her Alexander Technique teacher training at the St. Louis Center for the Alexander Technique and is certified to teach by the American Society for the Alexander Technique.
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