Cristi Catt, Voice faculty, Early Music faculty, Director of A Cappella, Associate Director of Community Programs
Cristi Catt is a soloist and chamber musician who specializes in mixing contemporary, world, and early vocal music. She has performed in concerts and theatrical productions throughout the U.S. and Europe, including appearances at Tanglewood, Flanders Festival, Moscow Conservatory, and Bergen Festival in Norway. She is a founding member of the internationally renowned vocal ensemble Tapestry, winners of the Echo Klassik and Chamber Music American’s Recording of the Year. She has appeared with leading early music ensembles including Ensemble PAN, Revels, La Donne Musicale and Boston Camerata. She has commissioned and premiered numerous new works and performed Steve Reich’s Tehillim with the Colorado Symphony and Cabrillo Festival Orchestra conducted by Marin Alsop.
The Los Angeles Times writes that “stunning solo excursions by Cristi Catt were as radiant and exciting as any singing I’ve heard all season.” Grammophone Magazine writes “high soprano Cristi Catt has captured the spirit of Hildegard von Bingen with extraordinary insight,” while Fanfare Magazine describes her in very different terms: “Catt and Tosic sometimes sing in a manner more suggestive of folk, even pop (think Joan Baez or Judy Collins), than classical music. This doesn't seem self-consciously "hip," however, and the ease and spontaneity of their singing can't hide their expert musicianship."
Her interest in the meeting points between medieval and world traditions has led to research grants to Portugal and southern France, and performances with French folk ensemble, Le Bon Vent,and HourGlass, an ensemble that blends medieval and world music of Portugal, Spain, France and Brazil. She also appears with the Balkan and Byzantine inspired chamber ensemble Balmus. She has served as music director for productions of Shakespearian comedies in Boston and New York, and directed an Italian tour of Hildegard Von Bingen’s medieval drama Ordo Virtutem. She has made several critically acclaimed recordings including Angeli, Celestial Light, Song of Songs: Come into my Garden and Fourth River with Telarc International, Sapphire Night and Faces of a Woman with German Label, MDG, Goodnight Marc Chagall with Canadian Label Epact and Carmina Burana with Erato. Ms. Catt received a Bachelor's Degree in Vocal Performance from the University of Kansas where she studied with Phyllis Brill and Norman Paige. She pursued graduate studies with Rudolph Knoll at the Mozarteum in Salzburg Austria and then studied with Laurie Monahan and completed a Masters Degree in Early Music at the Longy School of Music.
University of Kansas, BA, Phyllis Brill and Norman Paige; Mozarteum, Rudolph Knoll; Longy School of Music, MM, Laurie Monahan; Tanglewood, the Flanders Festival, the Moscow Conservatory, and the Bergen Festival in Norway; Ensemble PAN, Revels, La Donne Musicale, Boston Camerata, Colorado Symphony, Cabrillo Festival Orchestra with Marin Alsop, Le Bon Vent, HourGlass, Balmus; founding member of Tapestry; winner of the Echo Klassik and Chamber Music American’s Recording of the Year; recorded with Telarc Internationa, German Label, MDG, Canadian Label Epact, Erato; Faculty: Longy School of Music.
Email: cristina.catt@longy.edu
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