Cristin Colvin
A versatile artist with a global presence presents a meditative journey through the voices of Kassia and Hildegard von Bingen during a Feb. 8 concert at Emory & Henry College, Emory, Virginia.
Soprano Cristin Colvin, a graduate of the E&H Class of 2009, leads a program that blends voice, synthesizer, piano, guitar and percussion. The concert begins at 7:30 p.m. in the McGlothlin Center for the Arts.
Colvin enjoys a musical career that continues to challenge the conception of art music’s place in our cultural ecosystem. A piano and vocal major at Emory & Henry, Colvin went on to complete a Master of Music degree in vocal performance and literature at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
A champion of interdisciplinary art experiences and new works, she originated the title role and stage directed the new opera, “Locust,” by composer Anne Guzzo in Wyoming, Morocco and Scotland from 2018 to 2021. She also produced a salon series with Denver’s Redline Contemporary Arts Center in 2017 to highlight the work of young composers and dancers in a free, immersive and sensory-friendly environment.
As a soloist, she has performed with the Boulder Chamber Orchestra in Goodall’s “Eternal Light: A Requiem;” Beethoven’s Mass in C, Op. 86, and Mozart’s Mass in C, K. 427. Her operatic and musical theater credits include Giovanna (an all-female retelling of Mozart’s “Don Giovanni), Phaino (“Here Be Sirens”), Jazz Trio (“Trouble in Tahiti”), Giannetta (“L’elisir d’amore”), Damon (“Acis and Galatea”), Euridice (“Orphee et Euridice”), Suor Genovieffa (“Suor Angelica’) and Eliza Doolittle (“My Fair Lady”).
Recently, she has focused on presenting a curated program of her arrangements of the works of Hildegard von Bingen, “Sisters of Light.” Presenting this program around the country under the name Moira Murphy, the project emerged after her experience working at the Cathedral Basilica in Denver.
For tickets, call the box office at the McGlothlin Center for the Arts, 276-944-6333, or visit www.ehc.edu/mca/tickets.
