Christine Glick Fairfield

Soprano


Christine Glick Fairfield is a soprano now living in Staunton, Virginia. A frequent soloist with multiple ensembles throughout Virginia including The Oratorio Society of Virginia, Shenandoah Valley Choral Society, Waynesboro’s Schola Cantorum, Rockbridge Choral Society, and Roanoque Baroque. She has also appeared with the Rockefeller Chapel Choir in Chicago, the Louisville Bach Society, Canticum Novum of NYC, as well as choirs in Germany, Münchener Frauenchor and Himmelfahrts Kirchenchor. Her repertoire ranges from the Baroque masters, Händel and Bach, to 20th c. works by Poulenc, Barber, and Rutter. She made her European debut singing ‘Marcelina’ in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro with The Saluzzo Opera Academy in 2021 followed by the role of ‘Rosalinde’ in Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss with the Lyric Opera Studio Weimar in 2022. Fluent in German, she excels at performing Lieder as well as opera and choral masterworks. As an educator, Christine has served on the faculty at Bridgewater College and now teaches at Washington and Lee University. Christine holds a Bachelor of Arts in Music with a concentration in voice from Eastern Mennonite University and a Master of Music in Vocal Performance and Pedagogy from Ohio University’s School of Music. She continued her postgraduate vocal studies with teachers Timothy Noble (IU Jacobs School of Music) , Christine Schadeberg, Stellario Faggone (Bayerische Staatsoper), Byron Jones (Shenandoah Conservatory) and Andres Morena Garcia (Deutsche Oper). Christine believes in the role that music-making plays in building relationships and engaging communities’ creative passions to bring people together.