Mezzo-soprano Christina Wilcox, has earned a remarkable reputation for her "warm, noble and thrilling" voice. Equally at home in opera and on the concert stage, she is perhaps best known for her work with symphony orchestras.

Christina Wilcox has performed with many of the leading orchestras of the United States including The New York Philharmonic, National Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Seattle Symphony, Houston Symphony and the Buffalo Philharmonic. She has appeared with the Florida Orchestra, Tulsa Philharmonic, Rhode Island Philharmonic, Kansas City Symphony, Wichita Symphony and the Los Angeles Mozart Orchestra and has sung under such esteemed conductors as Erich Leinsdorf, Zdenek Macal, Gerard Schwarz, Richard Bradshaw, JoAnn Falletta, David Lockington, Jahja Ling, Zuohuang Chen and Norman Scribner.

She has worked frequently with the conductor Maximiano Valdes, performing with him at Grant Park Concerts in Chicago, the Buffalo Philharmonic, Seattle Opera and the Orquesta del Principado de Asturias in Spain. She made her Buffalo Philharmonic debut under Mo. Valdes in the Verdi Requiem, and returned to sing Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde with him as well as Handel’s Messiah under JoAnn Falletta and the Verdi Requiem under David Lockington. She has sung frequently under Dennis Keene, performing under his baton at the Caramoor Festival, the Keenefest and with the Voices of Ascension in New York City.

Miss Wilcox made her Seattle Symphony debut in 1995 in Handel’s Messiah under Gerard Schwarz, her National Symphony Orchestra debut in 1997 in the Verdi Requiem at Wolf Trap and her Houston Symphony debut in 1999 in Handel’s Messiah. Among her more recent performances, she made her debut with the Brooklyn Philharmonic under Robert Spano in a semi-staged production of Adams’ The Death of Klinghoffer followed by her San Francisco Symphony debut in Bach’s B Minor Mass and her Santa Rosa Symphony debut in Handel’s Messiah. In spring 2005, she sang the Verdi Requiem for debuts with the Jacksonville Symphony and the Duke Chapel Choir in Durham, North Carolina.

She has sung frequently at New York’s Carnegie Hall as soloist for such groups as Musica Sacra and the Canterbury Choral Society. She made her Kennedy Center debut in 2000 singing Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 with Norman Scribner and the Choral Arts Society of Washington. She has been a frequent performer with the Greenwich Choral Society and has sung with the Los Angeles Master Chorale and the Berkshire Choral Festival

Known for her work in opera, Ms. Wilcox made her professional opera debut with New York City Opera debut in 1990 as the Mother in Hansel and Gretel. She returned the following season for the premiere of Robert Dennis’ East of the Sun, West of the Moon. She made her Dallas Opera debut in 1994 as Fortuna in L’Incoronazione di Poppea, conducted by Patrick Summers and directed by Bliss Hebert; and her debut with Seattle Opera in 1998 as Siebel in Faust, under Mo. Valdes, directed by Bernard Uzan. She has sung Menotti’s production of Amahl and the Night Visitors at Lincoln Center. She was selected for the London Opera Center, where she performed Cavali’s La Calista, and Rossina in Barbieri di Siviglia, She has sung Dorabella in Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte for the Liedrekranz Society of New York and Opera on the Sound on Long Island.

This spring will bring her debut with the Apollo Chorus of Chicago under Stephen Alltop singing the title role of Handel’s Solomon.