Lyric Soprano Christina Kowalski is known for the unique dark timbre of her voice, her “glowing heights and warm depths” excite audiences in the U.S.A. as well as in Europe. The singer with the “electrifying voice” is a native of Germany, where she graduated in music and drama from the Hochschule für Musik und Kunst in Frankfurt. Since then she has been internationally active and appeared in productions by the Frankfurt Opera Studio as the Governess in Turn of the Screw and Parascha in Stravinsky’s Mavra. She also performed the role of Vespetta in Pimpinone at the Theater Schiffenberg in Giessen and was the Sand—and Taumann in Haensel und Gretel with the Orchester Gesellschaft in Frankfurt. She toured with the “Febi Armonici” and appeared as Amore in Poppe” at the Stadttheater Eisenach and the Berlin Philharmonic.

Ms. Kowalski held an all-Schubert Recital by invitation of the Viennese Society for Young and Promising Talent in Vienna, and was a member of the Lied-Klasse (master class series on German song) of Professor Charles Spencer in Frankfurt, Gundula Janowitz in Vienna and Elena Lazarska in Salzburg. She made her debut in the United States as Marzelline in Beethoven’s Fidelio at the Mark Theater in Portland. Besides being accepted to the Portland young artist program to perform the roles of Pamina in Flute and Clorinda in Cenerentola, she was invited back to Portland’s main stage to perform, among others, Anna Gomez in The Consul and Barbarina in Figaro. She appeared in the Portland Summer Fest as Mimi in La Boheme and is a regular at Coer d’alene Opera, where she portrayed Lauretta in Schicci, Adina in E’lisir and most recently the Countess in Figaro.  Her concert engagements include performances with the Kammer Orchestra Bad Nauheim (where she was invited to perform the Debut of the Mass “Dona nobis pacem”), the Bravo! Vancouver Orchestra and the Sinfonia concertante in such repertoire as Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, Faure Requiem, Bach’s Magnificat, and the Bach Cantatas 51 and 140. She recently performed the Mozart Requiem with the Chorus and Orchestra of the University of Puget Sound.  In both 2001 and 2002 she took first prize in the Oregon District of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions.