CHRISTA PFEIFFER (soprano) has an active career in oratorio, opera and recital. Appearances include performances with American Bach Soloists, Berkeley Symphony Orchestra, Oakland Symphony Chorus, Jubilate Orchestra, Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra, Albany Consort, Festival Opera, Music from Bear Valley, Old First Concerts, Gualala Arts Concerts and Chattanooga Concerts. On the concert stage Ms Pfeiffer has been soloist in Mozart's Mass in C Minor with the Arizona Masterworks Chorale, Haydn's St Nicolai Mass at St George's Cathedral in Cape Town, South Africa, J.S. and C.P.E. Bach's Magnificats with the San Francisco Choral Society as well as J.S. Bach's Wedding Cantata (BWV 202), St. John Passion and Mass in B Minor, Pergolesi's Stabat Mater, Mozart's Exultate jubilate, Coronation Mass and Vesperae solennes, Handel's Messiah and Haydn's Paukenmesse and Kleine Orgelmesse. Operatic roles include St. Settlement (Four Saints in Three Acts) with the Mark Morris Dance Group/ABS, Ilia (Idomeneo), Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni), Musetta (La Boheme), Lauretta (Gianni Schicchi) and Gilda (Rigoletto). As a recitalist, Ms. Pfeiffer performed a live broadcast program including Poulenc's Banalités on KPFA, Messiaen's Poèmes pour Mi at the Britten Pears School for Advanced Musical Studies in Aldeburgh, England, Barber's Knoxville: Summner of 1915, Ravel's Chansons madécasses at Old First Concerts in San Francisco, and most recently Villa-Lobos' Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 at the San Francisco Public Library recital series. Upcoming engagements include Eden/Eden by Steve Reich with the San Francisco Ballet, Schubert's Mass in G, Faure's Requiem, Brahms' Liebeslieder and a selection of songs by Messiaen at Grace Cathedral. Ms Pfeiffer received a bachelor's degree in vocal performance from Eastman School of Music where she worked with Paul O'Dette and Christel Thielmann. She released her first CD entitled "Hush: Lullabies from around the World" in the summer of 2003.

"a full-voiced soprano… with a keen sense of style and humor" (San Francisco Classical Voice)

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