Mezzo-soprano Christianne Rushton has delighted audiences with her engaging presence and versatility on both the operatic and concert stages. Christianne is a first-prize winner of the Canadian National Music Festival, a prize winner at the prestigious Eckhardt-Gramatté Competition, a two-time grant recipient from the Canada Council for the Performing Arts, and a winner of the Canada Council’s Bernard Diamant Prize in Voice. In recital, she debuted at New York’s Alice Tully Hall and was featured on the New York Festival of Songs. She was a guest artist for the Royal Society of Canada, toured with Debut Atlantic, performed at the Indian River Festival, recorded with the Canadian Chamber Choir, and has sung with Baltimore Musicales.

Dr. Rushton is Director of the School of Music at Acadia University where she is Professor and head of Vocal Studies. Christianne is a graduate of the Juilliard Opera Center at The Juilliard School, and completed her Doctorate of Musical Arts from SUNY Stony Brook. She was honoured to receive an Emerging Leader Award from the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) for her innovation and success teaching voice. Dr. Rushton is past President of two arts organizations: President of the Canadian Atlantic Provinces Chapter of NATS and the President of the Nova Scotia Federation of Provincial Music Festivals. Christianne is founder and President of Discover Your Dynamic Voice, a program that offers coaching to women and non-binary leaders in order to unlock the power of their own unique voice.

As well as being active as an adjudicator, pedagogue, workshop clinician, and performer across the country, she is a proud mom to two very busy boys, ages 16 and 13. Christianne is honoured to sing with Symphony Nova Scotia once again after previously appearing in Bach’s B Minor Mass and Mozart’s Requiem.