Christina Visy
Junior Orchestra Conductor
Emal: cvisy@mtroyal.ca
Canadian music educator Christina Visy is pleased to be the director of Mount Royal Conservatory’s Junior Sinfonia and Preparatory Strings. She holds Violin Performance and Education degrees from the University of Western Ontario and the University of Toronto respectively and has undertaken post-graduate studies in string pedagogy at Indiana University. Her principal mentors include Elizabeth Ganiatsos, Igor Markstein, Lorand Fenyves, Mimi Zweig and Brenda Brenner. As concertmaster of the California-based Celebrant Singers, Christina has travelled to over 45 countries throughout Eurasia, the Middle East, and North, Central and South Americas. A passionate string music educator, Christina has taught music from K- 12 and served on faculty at Rocky Mountain College as Assistant to the Chair of the Arts and Director of Music, where she taught string pedagogy and directed the college orchestra. Christina is currently the Director of Strings at Bishop Carroll High School where she directs four string orchestras who are local, provincial, national and international award-winning ensembles. In addition to directing the Blue Strings for the Westwinds Music Society currently, she has conducted performances at The Midwest Clinic in Chicago IL with Bishop Carroll’s Virtuosi Strings and is the 2021 recipient of the National Arts Centre Orchestra/MusicFest Douglas Payson Sturdevant Outstanding Orchestra Director Award.