Soprano Christine Cornell is making waves in the New York performing arts scene. A dynamic actor and musician, she also leads the acclaimed Brooklyn Harmonics Vocal Program at BKCM.
This summer, Christine joins the SummerScape chorus in Bard SummerScape's production of Richard Strauss's Die ägyptische Helena, and will stay on for the 36th Bard Music Festival, Mozart and His World.
Last summer, she was a guest artist with the Sound Symphony Orchestra on Long Island, conducted by Scott Stickley. She performed Samuel Barber's Knoxville: Summer of 1915, and, on separate occasions, charmed audiences with selections from My Fair Lady, The Pirates of Penzance, and Gershwin classics, all under the baton of conductor Dorothy Savitch.
Christine was recently involved in the new musical The Real Kyle McCarren, which had a sold-out performance at Joe's Pub last spring. The production, made possible by the Jonathan Larson Grant, starred its creators Andy Roninson and Sean McVerry alongside Broadway veterans Norbert Leo Butz, Kate Baldwin, and Orville Mendoza. She has been in the studio recording the project, to be released at an unknown date.
Last August, Christine took part in a reading of a new project by Dan Rubins, directed by Kate Moore Heaney, at Open Jar Studios.
Christine's voice has also taken her to stages beyond New York. In April 2026, she was a semi-finalist at the CS Vocal Audition in Boston; in February 2024, a quarter-finalist in the American Traditions Vocal Competition in Savannah, Georgia. Her diverse projects include a featured turn on Erik Carlson's Slowly Expanding Milton Babbitt album (Three Theatrical Songs), helping the von Trapp family escape Austria as Sister Margaretta in the Virginia Opera/Virginia Arts Festival co-production of The Sound of Music (conducted by Rob Fisher), and a multi-city concert series in Italy with Ghostlight Chorus (music director Dr. Evelyn Troester DeGraf), which included a world premiere by composer Mary Gatchall.
Christine is a regularly featured vocalist with The Justin Rothberg Band, most recently at the Brooklyn staple Pete's Candy Store. Justin and Christine are also regulars at Moynihan Train Hall, courtesy of the wonderful organization Sing for Hope.
She has graced venues including 54 Below (NYC), the Quick Center (CT), and the Renberg Theatre (LA), where she appeared in Joanna Gleason's sold-out one-woman show Out of the Eclipse.
Her stage credits also include The Apple and Other Slip-Ups (ARC Stages), The Most Happy Fella (Goodspeed), The Sound of Music (Virginia Arts Festival/Virginia Opera, Paper Mill Playhouse, Sacred Heart), Master Class (Gulf Shore Playhouse), A Nantucket Christmas Carol (White Heron Theatre), and Four Saints in Three Acts with Trinity Choir (Brooklyn Academy of Music). She made her film-scoring debut in Alex Weston's original score for What Breaks the Ice(released October 2021).
Christine is a proud member of Actors' Equity Association (thank you, Goodspeed!) and is on the roster at Avalon Artists Group. A graduate of the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, she is currently pursuing a Master of Music in Music Performance at Brooklyn College. She is having a blast carving her own path across these many theatrical and musical opportunities.
