American soprano Christina Pier has been hailed by Opera News for her “big, gleaming soprano and impressive coloratura…she is a young singer with great potential.” Whether it be on the opera stage, concert platform or recital hall, Ms. Pier is consistently met with great critical and audience acclaim.

In the 2012-13 season Ms. Pier will be heard with the Charlotte Symphony in an evening of Handel, Mozart and Golijov with Christopher Warren-Green; she makes her house and role debut as Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus with Virginia Opera; and sings Handel’s Messiah with the Indianapolis Symphony.

Recently on the concert platform she has performed Maher’s Symphony No. 4 with the North Carolina Symphony under the direction of Grant Llewellyn as well as with the Rochester Philharmonic with Arild Remmereit, and Mozart’s Requiem with the Charlotte Symphony and the Eugene Symphony with Christopher Warren-Green and Danail Rachev respectively.  She was heard with the Alabama Symphony in Mozart’s Great Mass in C Minor, and with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra performing Ravel’s Shéhérazade. Ms. Pier performed as a soloist with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra singing Mendelssohn’s Lobgesang and selections of Beethoven’s Leonore conducted by Nic McGegan, and previously, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with conductor Roberto Abbado, a recital for the George London Foundation, and concerts with the World Youth Orchestra in Italy and at the General Assembly Hall of the United Nations in New York.  In 2009 she recorded Vaughan Williams' Dona Nobis Pacem with David Hill and the BBC Singers and is available on the Naxos label.

Christina Pier has performed leading roles with the Santa Fe Opera, Florida Grand Opera, Minnesota Opera, Nashville Opera, Sarasota Opera, Princeton Festival, Eugene Opera, and understudied two roles with Lyric Opera of Chicago.  A consummate Mozartarian, Ms. Pier has been seen as Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, Pamina in Die Zauberflöte, Countess in Le Nozze di Figaro, and Fiordiligi in Cosi fan tutte. She has also sung Micaëla in Carmen and Marguerite in Gounod’s Faust.

Ms. Pier is the recipient of numerous prestigious awards including a 2003 Grand Finals Winner of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, George London Award, Sullivan Award, two Charles A. Lynam awards, and two Palm Beach Opera Competition Awards.

Originally from Flagstaff, AZ, Ms. Pier received a BM and MM in voice at Indiana University where she studied with Virginia Zeani. She is currently a member of the voice faculty at Catawba College.