Christine Maxted is the featured soprano soloist for Reveries, the Manassas
Symphony's Annual Family Concert on December 14, 2024. She is performing a setting of the classic
bedtime story Goodnight Moon, composed by American Eric Whitacre.
Christine Maxted serves as the theatre teacher at Westfield High School and Stone Middle School for Fairfax
County Public Schools. She holds her MA in Theatre Education and BM in Musical Theatre from the Catholic
University of America. Performance venues have included Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, Wolf Trap for the
Performing Arts, Harman Center, NextStop Theatre, Workhouse Arts Center, Little Theatre of Alexandria, Upper
Room Theatre, Prince William Little Theatre, and Reston Community Players. Christine has been a featured
soloist for the Manassas Chorale, Manassas Symphony Orchestra, 2019 Prince William All County Choir Concert,
and ETWN televised masses and concerts.
Christine is known to MSO audiences for her stunning portrayal of Mother Abbess in the Summer 2022
collaborative MSO-PWLT production of The Sound of Music. Highlights of her singing career have
included singing for Junípero Serra’s Canonization Mass celebrated by Pope Francis and
participating in the PBS documentary, The Defiant Requiem where she performed at international
venues in Prague and Budapest. She recently joined the cast of the Star Trek fan film series Farragut
Forward as Vulcan Science Officer Valerik. Although Christine loves to perform, she experiences immense
joy bringing others to the stage as well.