Christine Jenkins, B.J., A. Mus., R.M.T., NATS

Christine Jenkins (née Boychuk) was born in Winnipeg, and lived briefly in Ottawa before being raised in Oakville, Ontario. She studied piano as a child and has sung publicly since the age of 12. Her early roles were with the Clarkson Music Theatre (now in Mississauga) as Bielke in Fiddler on the Roof and in senior elementary school as The Bird Woman in Mary Poppins.

After moving to Ottawa to take a Carleton journalism degree and working there seven years in public relations with the Ottawa-Carleton Safety Council, she undertook more than five years of classical voice study with Gloria Jean Nagy in 1992. She won several Kiwanis Firsts in years following and continues to enjoy performing at weddings, recitals and master classes. After several enjoyable seasons with Ms. Nagy's choir, the Amabile Singers of Nepean, she joined the Canadian Centennial Choir under James Caswell from 1997-2003, and from 2005 to the present. She appeared in May, 2000 in Mahler's tremendous Third Symphony, behind mezzo Julie Nesrallah and the Ottawa Symphony Orchestra on the NAC stage. Other highlights included the Rutter Magnificat and 2006's Broadway show.

She has been a guest singer in the massed choir which performs at major choral concerts of the National Arts Centre under conductors like Helmuth Rilling and especially Trevor Pinnock in the Messiah..

In 1995, Christine began teaching voice and rudiments and started eight seasons as alto section leader for the Dominion-Chalmers Senior Choir. She tutors with the Canterbury vocal arts programme, and acts as the exam facilitator for the Royal Conservatory of Music, Ottawa Central 162, in addition to teaching at her private studio in east Ottawa, Ontario.

In April, 1998 Christine debuted in recital with local tenor Karl Mann as part of the St. Andrew's Intermezzo series. Later that year, she passed her voice teacher's viva voce and pedagogy exams, and was awarded her teaching diploma with First Class Honours by London's Western Ontario Conservatory of Music (now Conservatory Canada). She has been the alto soloist in CAMMAC's rendition of Dvorak's Stabat Mater, and appeared in 2004 as the alto soloist in the Kanata Choral Society's Elijah.

Christine became a registered music teacher (R.M.T.) with the Ontario Registered Music Teachers' Association in the fall of 1998 and in February 1999, the Friends of Conservatory Canada presented her the award for the highest exam mark in Eastern Ontario. She was accepted into full membership in the National Association of Teachers of Singing in March of 1999.

Her hobbies include bicycling, tea culture, reading, sewing and decorating.
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