Sessions
Keynote Speaker & Performance
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM Mon
Adjunct Professor of Cello and member of Quartet Nova at Angelo State University, Christine Renée Kralik is a thriving young professional cellist who will receive her Doctorate of Musical Arts with an emphasis in cello performance from Texas Tech University in May 2018. She holds a Masters in Music from the Cleveland Institute of Music and a Bachelor of Music from the University of Utah. She studied cello performance with Jeffrey Lastrapes at Texas Tech University, Cleveland Orchestra cellist Richard Weiss at the Cleveland Institute of Music, and Utah Symphony cellist Pegsoon Whang at the University of Utah.
Kralik was principle cellist of the Texas Tech Symphony Orchestra for all three years of her Doctoral studies, providing her with many opportunities to solo and lead. She performed in many recitals with faculty and students, participated in premiere recording sessions, performed as a TMEA soloist, was an active member of the Graduate String Quartet, has performed with symphonies all over west Texas, is a member of the Lubbock Symphony Orchestra, and has performed in chamber ensembles in the communities of Lubbock and San Angelo on many occasions. Along with holding a busy performance schedule, Kralik finds great joy in teaching. She teaches students in the communities of San Angelo and Lubbock as well as students studying cello on the collegiate level, through Angelo State University and Texas Tech University.
This summer she is excited to join the faculty of the Tennessee’s Governor’s School for the Arts and to be able to work with the students, where she will share her passion and love for music and the cello with those she teaches. Kralik will also be returning to teach cello at the Interlochen Center for the Arts in Michigan. She performs on a German Wilhelm Hammig cello dated 1907.