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Christine's early studies were at the
Deutsche Schule in Santiago, Chile. She later studied Organ,
Basso-continuo, Choir conducting, and Music Theory at the Conservatorio
Nacional de Chile, and continued her study of Organ and Early Music
Performance at the Hochschule für
Musik und Theater,
Hamburg, Germany, Choir conducting at the Berliner Kirchenmusikschule,
and in Harpsichord with Nicholas Parle in London.
Her teaching experience includes
Basso-continuo at the Kirchenmusikschule, Berlin (Germany), and several
master classes at Universidad Catolica de Chile and at Festival
Villarica in Chile and the Early-Music Festivals in Europe including Thüringen
and Schwedt. She has taught baroque tuning methods in Würzburg,
Germany and early vocal techniques and baroque ensemble in Santiago de Chile,
and has led a harpsichord class at the Remscheider Cembalotage,
Germany.
As solo organist and harpsichordist
and ensemble leader, she performed in Hamburg, Hanover, Berlin, Cologne,
Leipzig, Dresden, Lübeck,
Kiel, Dortmund, Heidelberg and
Bremen. In Chile, she performed with the ensembles Capella Antiqua,
Pentagrama, Orquesta Sinfonica de Chile, and Orquesta de
Camara Universidad Catolica, and, as a assistant conductor and
continuo player, with the Coro de la Universidad de Chile, Coro
Collegium Josquin, Madrigalistas de la Universidad Catolica among others.
For six years she was the Music Director for the 1st Santiago
Community Church in Chile, as well as for the Lutheran Pauluskirche.
In Germany, she performed with the Berliner Bachsolisten, the Berliner
Bachorchester, Spandauer Kantorei, Hamburger Vocal Ensemble,
Friedberger Kantorei, La Giola, L'Arpa Festante, Musica Poetica,
Chursächsische Capell, Estudio MusicAntigua (European Tour), and
Ars Antique Lipsiensis among many others. Recently she conducted
Vivaldi's “Gloria” with the Crescendo Choir and the L'Orchestre de
Chambre Français on tour in the US.
She has recorded for Carpe Diem
records, Berlin, since 1995, and can be heard on the early German Baroque CD "Dulcis
Memoriae" before joining Les Inégales, with whom she has been on
several European and South-American Tours, as well as performing at the East
coast (Boston Early Music Festival 2001). With Les Inégales she has
recorded "Ordinaire de la chambre du roi" for Carpe Diem in 1998
and “A la Bach” in 2004.
Since 2001 she is the organist and
choir director at Trinity Episcopal Church, Lime Rock and the artistic director
of Crescendo!
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