Christine Feierabend

Education

• BMus (Toronto)
• MMus (Juilliard)

Research & creative activity

Christine has held the position of second flute and piccolo with Symphony Nova Scotia since 1989.  She has appeared as concerto soloist with Symphony Nova Scotia on both flute and piccolo.  She has played chamber music at Scotia Festival, The Music Room, on the Faculty Series at the Maritime Conservatory of the Performing Arts, on the St. Cecilia Summer Concert Series, and on the Three Churches Summer Series in Mahone Bay.  Prior to coming to Nova Scotia, Christine played extra with the Toronto Symphony and Hamilton Philharmonic. She has also performed with the National Arts Centre Orchestra.  She has been a member of the National Youth Orchestra of Canada and the Tanglewood Festival Orchestra on a fellowship.

Christine is originally from Oshawa, Ontario and holds a Bachelor of Music in Performance from the University of Toronto and a Master of Music from the Juilliard School in New York.

She has trained with teachers in New York, N.Y. (Samuel Baron, Jeanne Baxtresser), Los Angeles, CA (Louise Ditullio), Deland, FL (Geoffrey Gilbert), Toronto, ON (Nora Shulman) and has had piccolo studies with Kazuo Tokito (Philadelphia, PA) and Camille Watts (Toronto, ON). Christine has also attended many master classes with such teachers as Robert Aitken, Julius Baker, William Bennett, Robert Cram, Jeffrey Khaner, Susan Milan Marina Piccinini and Ransom Wilson.

As a teacher, Christine has given flute clinics all over Nova Scotia and has coached the Nova Scotia Youth Orchestra and been a coach for the flutes of the Nova Scotia Youth Wind Ensemble.  She recently worked with flutists from across Canada as part of the Atlantic Festivals’ National Band Music Festival.

In her spare time, Christine likes to read and do jigsaw puzzles.