Southern California-based Christina Crerar is a versatile vocalist/recording artist, performer and educator with over 20 years of education and performance experience.  Christina graduated magna cum laude from The Catholic University of America with a conservatory Bachelor of Music degree in Musical Theatre, and awarded Pi Kappa Lambda membership. After years of touring and teaching private students, Christina returned to the university classroom at the Shenandoah Conservatory CCM Vocal Pedagogy Institute, acquiring full certification in Somatic Voicework(tm), a functional, evidence-based, and multi-disciplinary vocal pedagogy approach, with Master’s credits.

Christina embraces many styles of music and has traveled the globe as both a featured and guest artist performing with shows, bands and as a solo act singing jazz, Broadway, cabaret and classical music.  In addition to recordings with big bands, jazz bands and combos, her solo jazz album “Little Jazz Bird” received critical acclaim from reviewers around the world and is available through major online music retailers.  Christina has studied and sung opera, classical, and sacred music as well. She has served as vocal arranger, lyricist, and has developed, produced and starred in multiple shows geared towards corporate events, cabaret stages and exclusive home-concert venues, including her corporate “USA Canteen” show with trio and big band, “What Would Blossom Do” traveling cabaret show, and a memorable, solo opening-act concert with big band for comedian Bob Newhart.

In addition to performing, for many years she enjoyed work as a choreographer, music director, director for numerous public and private high schools including Sidwell Friends and Oakcrest School in the DC area, and San Clemente High School and San Juan Hills High School in Orange County, CA. She served as the jazz vocal teacher for the Levine School of Music in Washington DC for two years, and was on the summer staff of Maryland Summer Jazz as a voice instructor. Christina also lent her versatile teaching talents to an advanced, high school jazz band program in Fairfax County, preparing vocalists for international public performances.

Upon moving to Southern California Christina continued to work as a singer on both coasts, music director for local public schools, and as a private voice teacher. In 2015 Christina took a hiatus from full-time teaching and performing to take on a new and treasured role – mom!

It has been a busy and constantly-changing 8 years filled with many joys, travel, discoveries, continued professional learning and life experiences that have enriched and informed her now part-time teaching and singing. Highlights absolutely include living room dance parties, kitchen “stage” performances, plus lots of piano and shower-time duets! Re-opening the studio and re-inventing a performance life around mom life has been invigorating as Christina is once again sharing her considerable gifts outside of her kitchen “stage”!

Prior to California “mom life”, favorite DC-area theatrical performance venues included Kennedy Center (“Bells are Ringing” with Faith Prince, “Where’s Charley” with Dick VanPatten, Page to Stage new works development, Millennium Stage concerts), Arena Stage (Candide – Helen Hayes Award nominated for Best Resident Musical), Olney Theatre (Cinderella). Favorite concert and club performances have included most venues in the DC area including Blues Alley, the Mandarin Oriental, Ritz Carlton, Union Station, Blackrock Center for the Arts, and more solo al-fresco concerts than she can name. Christina has performed internationally as a touring “triple threat” (singer/dancer/actor), nationally with numerous jazz and big bands as a featured vocalist and had the honor of singing for several official Presidential Inauguration events, plus a memorable show for our US troops on a tiny, tropical atoll in the middle of the South Pacific as part of a Department of Defense entertainment tour to the Far East!

As a teacher, Christina encourages students of all ages and ability levels as they grow to become strong singers and performers.  Her approach prepares serious music students for careers and helps recreational singers and speakers develop greater confidence and ease in their singing and overall presentation.  Most students attest that singing lessons do far more than train them as singers – they become more confident in their daily lives and find their personal and professional lives greatly enhanced and enriched by that sense of confidence.  “It is truly a joy to give people the tools to become confident, creative and expressive in their performances and, possibly more importantly, in their daily lives!”

To contact Christina for performance or teaching bookings, click here.