Cristi Catt is a singer and improviser who specializes in mixing contemporary, world, and early vocal music in thematic live concerts and recordings. 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 Chamber Music American’s Recording of the Year. She is currently developing and touring All over the Map with Blue Thread and has new recordings with Blue Thread and Telltale Crossing. 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, 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 for the college in the Contemporary improvisation Department and in the School of Continuing Education in in the Voice Department. She is an Assistant Professor of Professional Music at Berklee College of Music where she teaches Movement for Musicians, Private Teacher Studio Class and Entrepreneurship. Previously she taught at the Longy School of Bard College and Merrimack College. The author of The Kinesthetic Singer: Lessons on Singing from Yoga and Basketball, she has presented lectures, workshops and master classes at Harvard University, Cornish College of the Arts, Williams College, and numerous other colleges throughout the United States.
She has a passion for the theatre and served as music director for the Boston Playwrights Theatre US premiere of The Rosenbergs, an opera by Joachim Holbek known for his scores for Lars Von Trier films She was music director for Collegebound: The Musical of Life and Debt at Studio BE in Chicago, productions of Shakespearian comedies in Boston and New York and has adapted and directed productions of Hildegard Von Bingen’s Ordo Virtutem including a production that toured Latvia and Sweden with vocal ensemble Putni.
Recordings include Angeli, Celestial Light, Song of Songs: Come into my Garden and Fourth River with Telarc International/Concord Music, 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. Indie recordings include Door Ajar and a series of singles with Blue Thread as part of their ongoing Shared Stories - Music Migration project.
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 for the college in the Contemporary improvisation Department and in the School of Continuing Education in in the Voice Department. She is an Assistant Professor of Professional Music at Berklee College of Music where she teaches Movement for Musicians, Private Teacher Studio Class and Entrepreneurship. Previously she taught at the Longy School of Bard College and Merrimack College. The author of The Kinesthetic Singer: Lessons on Singing from Yoga and Basketball, she has presented lectures, workshops and master classes at Harvard University, Cornish College of the Arts, Williams College, and numerous other colleges throughout the United States.
She has a passion for the theatre and served as music director for the Boston Playwrights Theatre US premiere of The Rosenbergs, an opera by Joachim Holbek known for his scores for Lars Von Trier films She was music director for Collegebound: The Musical of Life and Debt at Studio BE in Chicago, productions of Shakespearian comedies in Boston and New York and has adapted and directed productions of Hildegard Von Bingen’s Ordo Virtutem including a production that toured Latvia and Sweden with vocal ensemble Putni.
Recordings include Angeli, Celestial Light, Song of Songs: Come into my Garden and Fourth River with Telarc International/Concord Music, 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. Indie recordings include Door Ajar and a series of singles with Blue Thread as part of their ongoing Shared Stories - Music Migration project.
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.