Christine Renée Kralik is the Cello Professor and Academic Lecturer at Middle Tennessee State University.  Previously she held the cello faculty positions at the University of Mississippi and Angelo State University in Texas. Dr. Kralik is a thriving professional cellist who received her Doctorate of Musical Arts with an emphasis in cello performance from Texas Tech University in May of 2018.  She holds a Masters in Music from the Cleveland Institute of Music and a Bachelor of Music from the University of Utah. She studied cello performance with Jeffrey Lastrapes at Texas Tech University, Cleveland Orchestra cellist Richard Weiss at the Cleveland Institute of Music, and Utah Symphony cellist Pegsoon Whang at the University of Utah.

Dr. Kralik holds an active performing career, performing frequently with the Mobile and North Mississippi Symphonies as principal cello and in chamber music concerts. Dr. Kralik performs on a German Wilhelm Hammig cello dated 1907 and an unnamed French cello bow thought to be from the Pierre Simon school circa 1880.