About

She has a special interest in social history and folklore.  She held the National Folk Fellowship - a collaboration with the National Library of Australia and the National Folk Festival - in 2009-10.  ​

As a performer she has played at numerous folk festivals around the country (Woodford, National Folk Festival, Mt Beauty, St Albans, Illawarra) and has performed and run workshops overseas in the UK, and in Singapore and Brunei for Musica Viva.

As a community choir leader she currently has seven weekly choirs and has organises special place-specific weekends (Sing Cockatoo, Sing Canowindra, Sing Dubbo, Forbes Festival, April Sun in Cuba) which combine community harmony singing and exploring place and culture through song.

In 2017 and 2019 she led cultural tours for Australian and English musicians through Cuba with the company Cuban Adventures.

She performed and toured with Blindman’s Holiday "world music" vocal ensemble and the folk trio, Touchwood.

She has collaborated with AWGIE award-winning writer PP Cranney on numerous projects and productions including "Lola’s Keg Night" (Merrigong Theatre, 2014), "Amulet" (2016) and "1917: Strike" which performed around the country to great acclaim for the centenary of the Great Strike of 1917 in Australia.  

Her debut album of original songs is "Rumours of Summer" (2011) and she is currently recording a new album of her own songs and one with The Third Voice. Her song “Let There Be Peace” has been sung by choirs everywhere and was recently translated into Tetum and sung in Dili to celebrate twenty years since the first democratic election in East Timor.

She has produced concerts, recordings and events both for her own projects and other people’s. 2022 was an extraordinarily busy year during which she: produced the Out & Loud & Proud International Choral Festival with the Sydney Gay & Lesbian Choir for Sydney WorldPride (2023); produced the first concert series at Wylie’s Baths featuring original local musicians; presented a work-in-progress of a new history/song cycle Twelve Good Rooms at historic Blenheim House for Randwick City Council; produced, with Greg White, a new album by the shanty group Forty Degrees South; performed solo and with The Third Voice in various venues and at various festivals.

Christina has forged a career as a songwriter, musician, choir-maker and event coordinator for over 25 years.  

She writes for her own solo projects, in collaboration with The Third Voice, PerSisters, with Greg White, and for various choir and community projects.