Christine Howlett
Visiting Instructor; Director of Choral Activities
Office: Skinner Hall 302
Phone: (845) 437-7837
Box: 477
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B.A., University of Toronto; M.A., Indiana University
Christine Howlett is the Director of Choral Activities at Vassar College where she conducts the Vassar College Women's Chorus, Vassar College Choir and teaches music theory and voice. Ms. Howlett is frequently in demand as an adjudicator and guest conductor. She is the Artistic Director of Cappella Festiva, an auditioned choral ensemble with a thirty-year history of performing in the Hudson Valley. In 2006, she co-founded the Summer Choral Festival for treble voices at Vassar College and the Cappella Festiva Treble Choir, an auditioned choral ensemble for treble voices ages 10-16. Ms. Howlett has performed as a soloist in many works including Bach's Magnificat, Mass in A major and Actus Tragicus, Charpentier's Les Arts Florissants, Mozart's Coronation Mass, Britten's Ceremony of Carols and Mass by Stravinsky. She has sung in ensembles under Paul Hillier, Lorin Maazel, and Helmut Rilling. Ms. Howlett earned the Bachelor of Vocal Performance from the University of Toronto and the Master of Early Music Voice Performance from Indiana University. She is a candidate for the Doctoral Degree in Choral Conducting at Indiana University and has studied voice and conducting with Alan Bennett, Jan Harrington, Mary Ann Hart, Paul Hillier, Drew Minter, Helmut Rilling, Stanley Ritchie, John Poole and Carmen Tellez.