New Millennium Strings

Christa Pfeiffer

Soprano Soloist

Oakland native Christa Pfeiffer is active in opera and oratorio throughout the Bay Area having performed with Oakland Opera, Festival Opera, American Bach Soloists, Berkeley Symphony Orchestra, Jubilate Orchestra and the Albany Consort. Operatic roles include Ilia (Idomeneo), Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni), Musetta (La Bohème) and Gilda (Rigoletto) and on the concert stage she has been soloist in Fauré’s Requiem, Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater and Bach’s Mass in B Minor and St. John Passion. Recent performances include Bach’s Magnificat with both the San Francisco Choral Society and the Oakland Symphony Chorus, Mozart’s Mass in C Minor with the Arizona Masterworks Chorale, and Haydn’s St. Nicolai Mass at St. George’s Cathedral in Cape Town, South Africa. Equally at home in contemporary repertoire, Ms. Pfeiffer gave a live broadcast recital including Poulenc’s Banalités on KPFA and performed Messiaen’s Poèmes pour Mi at the Britten Pears School for Advanced Musical Studies in Aldeburgh, England.

Ms Pfeiffer received a bachelor’s degree in vocal performance from Eastman School of Music and teaches private voice in her studio in Berkeley. She released her first CD entitled Hush: Lullabies from around the world in the summer of 2003. To learn more visit www.christapfeiffer.com.

March, 2005