Music

Faculty

B.A., University of Toronto; M.A., Indiana University; D.M.A. Indiana University (2008)

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 in demand as an adjudicator and guest conductor. She is the Artistic Director of Cappella Festiva, an auditioned choral ensemble with a thirty-five 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. She is also the Artistic Director of the Poughkeepsie Boys Choir, an ensemble supported by the Catherine Street Center.

Ms. Howlett has performed as a soloist in many works including Bach's Magnificat, Mass in B minor, 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 Simon Carrington, Paul Hillier, Lorin Maazel, and Helmut Rilling. She is a member of Kairos: A Consort of Singers, an ensemble of sixteen voices that are artists-in-residence at the Holy Cross Monastery in West Park, NY.