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Christina Manceor is a percussionist, educator, and arts administrator with diverse musical interests. Currently based in the Baltimore area, she works full-time as Managing Director of Community Concerts at Second, a local performing arts presenting organization, and is Co-Artistic Director of About\face, a genre-melding concert series which presents diverse new music and art within the community. She also performs as a freelance musician, pursuing artistic collaborations in chamber music, world music, orchestra, jazz, and improvisation. Professionally, Christina performs as a member of The Kris Johnson Group, a jazz/R&B ensemble based in Detroit, and has performed in the musical theatre production The Music Man, the opera The Mikado, the jazz musical Jim Crow’s Tears, and with the Symphony of the Lakes (Warsaw, IN) and Life Sciences Orchestra (Ann Arbor, MI). As a soloist, she has most recently been named the winner of the 2015 PAS/Armand Zildjian Percussion Scholarship, as well as the 2013 Black Swamp Solo Multi-Percussion Competition. Christina has additionally directed a few of her own performance projects, including Love Beats Rain, a chamber opera by J. Clay Gonzalaz, and a collaborative dance and percussion performance of Derek Bermel’s improvisation-based piece, Orbit Design. Through a combination of her performance and entrepreneurial skills, Christina is able to create compelling collaborations in unexpected spaces, and she is always searching for unique ways to bring the artistic and emotional journey to new audiences. |
As an educator passionate about helping musicians further their careers, Christina is an advisor and office associate at the Peabody Career Center. Furthermore, her experience in music education spans almost a decade of private instruction in classical percussion, marching percussion, drumset, and jazz improvisation, and she has regularly taught as drumline staff for the Troy High School Marching Band in Michigan.
Christina earned her B.M. in Percussion Performance with a minor in Performing Arts Management at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, studying with Joseph Gramley and Jonathan Ovalle, and has completed a M.M. in Percussion Performance at the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University, studying with Robert Van Sice.
Christina earned her B.M. in Percussion Performance with a minor in Performing Arts Management at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, studying with Joseph Gramley and Jonathan Ovalle, and has completed a M.M. in Percussion Performance at the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University, studying with Robert Van Sice.
