Soprano Christina Kowalski is known for the unique dark timbre of her voice, her “glowing heights and warm depths” excite audiences in the U.S.A. as well as in Europe. Ms.Kowalski is a native of Germany, where she graduated in Music and Drama from the Hochschule für Musik und Kunst in Frankfurt. She appeared in productions by the Frankfurt Opera Studio as the Governess in Turn of the Screw and Parascha in Stravinsky’s Mavra. At the Stadttheater Schiffenberg in Giessen she performed the role of Vespetta in Pimpinone and was the Sandman and Taumann in Haensel und Gretel with the Orchester Gesellschaft Frankfurt. She toured with the Febi Armonici throughout Germany and appeared as Amore in Poppea at the Stadttheater Eisenach and the Berlin Philharmonic.

Ms.Kowalski held an all-Schubert Recital by invitation of the Viennese Society for Young and Promising Talent in Vienna, and was a member of the Lied-Klasse (Master Class series on German song) of Professor Charles Spencer in Frankfurt, Ms.Gundula Janowitz in Vienna and Ms. Elena Lazarska in Salzburg.
Ms. Kowalski made her Debut in the United States as Marzelline in Beethoven’s Fidelio at the Mark Theater in Portland. She performed with POW, the Portland Young Artist Program as Pamina in The Magic Flute and Clorinda in Cenerentola and appeared as Anna Gomez in The Consul, Inez in Il Trovatore and Barbarina in The Marriage of Figaro at Portland Opera’s Keller Auditorium. Ms. Kowalski sang Mimi in La Boheme for Skagit Opera, Kitsap Opera and at the Portland Summer Fest. She is an Audience favorite at Coeur d’alene Opera, where she portrayed Lauretta in Gianni Schicci , Adina in E’lisir d’amore  and most recently the Countess in The Marriage of Figaro.

Her concert engagements include performances with the Kammer Orchestra Bad Nauheim (where she was invited to perform the Debut of the Mass Dona nobis pacem), the Bravo! Vancouver Orchestra and the Sinfonia concertante in such Repertoire as Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, the Faure Requiem, Bach’s Magnificat, and the Bach Cantatas 51 and 140. She performed the Mozart Requiem with the Chorus and Orchestra of the University of Puget Sound.

Ms. Kowalski is a member of the Affiliate Artist Faculty of the University of Puget Sound, where she teaches voice.