Lindsey Christiansen
- Email Address: christiansen@rider.edu
- Phone: (609) 921-7100, ext. 8303
- Office: Erdman Hall 26
- Mailing Address: 101 Walnut Lane, Princeton, NJ 08540
Professor of Voice. BA (music history), University of Richmond; MM (voice and organ), University of Illinois. Woodrow Wilson Fellow and University of Illinois Fellow. Studied in the Opera School of the Hochschule für Musik, Hamburg, as International Rotary Foundation Fellow (1974-75). Member of Phi Beta Kappa, Morterboard, Phi Alpha Theta, Pi Kappa Lambda. Fellow of the Bach Aria Festival and Institute (1989).
A Distinguished Alumna of the University of Richmond (1992), Aston Magna Participant (1993). Solo orchestral appearances with Greensboro Symphony, Roanoke Symphony, Colonial Orchestra, Philadelphia Concerto Soloists, Princeton Pro Musica, Pro Arte Choral. Artist-in-Residence for the Franz-Schubert-Institut, Baden bei Wien, Austria (1995, 1997). Recitalist specializing in German lieder throughout the United States and Germany. Clinician and lecturer in art song literature and voice pedagogy. Faculty, University of Illinois; University of North Carolina at Greensboro; Westminster Choir College of Rider University (1977-).
A music history graduate of the University of Richmond, Ms. Christiansen earned graduate degrees in voice and organ from the University of Illinois, where she was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow and a University of Illinois Fellow. She did further study at the Opera School of the Hochschule für Musik in Hamburg, Germany, as an International Rotary Foundation Fellow. She was twice named a Fellow at the Bach Aria Festival and Institute in Stony Brook, N.Y.
Ms. Christiansen is a life-long student and lover of the music of Franz Schubert. She was a participant in the Aston Magna Academy on "Schubert's World" and later presented a paper on Schubert and Friedrich Schlegel for the Northeast Modern Language Association. At Westminster she organized and coordinated a festival/symposium on the music of Schubert. She has twice been artist-in-residence for voice study for the prestigious Franz-Schubert-Institut in Baden bei Wien, Austria.
She has won acclaim as a recitalist specializing in German lieder in many cities in the United States and Germany. Her solo orchestral appearances under such conductors as Joseph Flummerfelt and Robert Shaw include collaborations with the Richmond Symphony, Roanoke Symphony, Greensboro Symphony, New Jersey Pops Orchestra, and the Philadelphia Concerto Soloists, among others. She was recently the alto soloist in a Richmond Symphony performance of Bach's St. Matthew Passion.
A member of the American Academy of Teachers of Singing and the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS), Ms. Christiansen is active as a clinician for master classes in voice pedagogy and voice literature. In addition to presenting at their national conventions, she has twice been a master teacher for the NATS internship program for young teachers. She has collaborated several times in presenting seminars in art song literature with the acclaimed coach/accompanist Martin Katz.
In addition to her current position at Westminster Choir College, Ms. Christiansen has taught on the music faculties of the University of Illinois, University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
