The Director

Christine Allison is delighted to be the director of the Children’s Chorus and Youth Chorus of VOCI.  She has choral directing in her blood.  Christine  graduated from Mount Union College with a Bachelor of Music degree in vocal performance and a Bachelor of Music Education degree.  It was during her college years that she discovered her love of choral directing.  She has since been directing community and church choirs for 35 years, and has taken several on concert tours to Europe and throughout the United States.  She is passionate about singing and worked with beginning children’s choirs in her 28 years as a church choir and bell director, where she directed close to 100 people every week. She teaches private voice lessons to a wide age range of singers, ages 12 to 84, and specializes in vocal problems.

She has sung in symphony choruses under the direction of Robert Page, Robert Shaw and others, studying their techniques as well as performing.  Christine’s formal education continued at The University of Akron, as well as in yearly master classes and workshops over the last 20 years with Henry Leck (Indianapolis Children’s Choir), Alice Parker, Tom Trenny, Michael Burkhardt (children’s voices), Helen Kemp (children’s voices), John Rutter, Lloyd Pfautch and others.

Christine says, "you are never too old to stop learning" and as long as she can, she will continue to seek out educational opportunities to study with others and gain new insights into how the voice works.