Cristi Catt is a classically trained singer who specializes in mixing contemporary, world, and early vocal music. She has performed throughout the U.S. Europe and South America, and 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. 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 band, Le Bon Vent, Balmus and HourGlass, Early music performances include Ensemble PAN, Revels, La Donne Musicale and Boston Camerata. She performed Steve Reich’s Tehillim with the Colorado Symphony and Cabrillo Festival Orchestra conducted by Marin Alsop, as well as at Jordan Hall conducted by Steven Drury.
The L.A.Times writes “the 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."
Cristi serves on the faculty of New England Conservatory as a voice instructor in the department of Contemporary Improvisation and as Assistant Professor of Professional Music at Berklee College of Music. Previously she taught at the Longy School of Bard College in Cambridge, MA. She has presented lectures, workshops and master classes at Harvard University, Stonybrook, Williams College, and numerous other colleges throughout the United States.
She has a passion for the theatre and most recently served as music director for a staged reading of a new opera, The Rosenbergs, at Brandeis College. She also served as music director for Collegebound: The Musical of Life and Debt at Studio BE in Chicago. She was music director for productions of Shakespearian comedies in Boston and New York, and has directed productions of Hildegard Von Bingen’s medieval drama Ordo Virtutem in Italy, the greater Boston area and a touring production with the vocal ensemble Putni in Latvia and Sweden. She is the director of Viriditas, the Night Song women’s schola that performs regularly at First Church Congregational in Cambridge.
Recordings include 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/Time Warner. In her most recent recording project, she joins forces with fellow Tapestry singer Daniela Tosic to collaborate with members of the Horse Flies, Richie Stearns, banjo and Taki Masuko, percussion to form a new ensemble Telltale Crossing. Stay tuned for their upcoming recording, Door Ajar.
Education: B.M. in voice, University of Kansas with Phyllis Brill, M.M. in early music, Longy School of Music with Laurie Monahan; Post-graduate studies with Rudolph Knoll at the Mozarteum, Salzburg Austria as a Rotary Fellow. Research grants to Portugal and southern France. Private voice studies with Nina Hinson.
The L.A.Times writes “the 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."
Cristi serves on the faculty of New England Conservatory as a voice instructor in the department of Contemporary Improvisation and as Assistant Professor of Professional Music at Berklee College of Music. Previously she taught at the Longy School of Bard College in Cambridge, MA. She has presented lectures, workshops and master classes at Harvard University, Stonybrook, Williams College, and numerous other colleges throughout the United States.
She has a passion for the theatre and most recently served as music director for a staged reading of a new opera, The Rosenbergs, at Brandeis College. She also served as music director for Collegebound: The Musical of Life and Debt at Studio BE in Chicago. She was music director for productions of Shakespearian comedies in Boston and New York, and has directed productions of Hildegard Von Bingen’s medieval drama Ordo Virtutem in Italy, the greater Boston area and a touring production with the vocal ensemble Putni in Latvia and Sweden. She is the director of Viriditas, the Night Song women’s schola that performs regularly at First Church Congregational in Cambridge.
Recordings include 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/Time Warner. In her most recent recording project, she joins forces with fellow Tapestry singer Daniela Tosic to collaborate with members of the Horse Flies, Richie Stearns, banjo and Taki Masuko, percussion to form a new ensemble Telltale Crossing. Stay tuned for their upcoming recording, Door Ajar.
Education: B.M. in voice, University of Kansas with Phyllis Brill, M.M. in early music, Longy School of Music with Laurie Monahan; Post-graduate studies with Rudolph Knoll at the Mozarteum, Salzburg Austria as a Rotary Fellow. Research grants to Portugal and southern France. Private voice studies with Nina Hinson.
