Soprano, Christina Kushnick received her M.M. at Manhattan School of Music in 2020 under the tutelage of Shirley Close and was a student of Dolora Zajick’s Institute of Young Dramatic Voices from 2017-2022. Ms. Kushnick also attended the Musik Theater Bavaria program in Oberaudorf, Germany in 2019. In 2025, she made her debut at Walt Disney Concert Hall performing Wagner’s “Liebestod” with the Los Angeles Symphonic Winds and starred in the world premiere of Felix Jarrar’s The Tell-Tale Heart (Narrator). In 2019, she made her Carnegie Hall debut performing in the Vanessa Quintet during the Manhattan School of Music Centennial Celebration and was chosen as the Soprano Solo Cover for Beethoven’s Symphony No.9. Other credits include Aïda (High Priestess), Hansel and Gretel (The Witch), and scenes from Ariadne auf Naxos (Ariadne) and Un Ballo in Maschera (Amelia) with Manhattan School of Music, and Cavalleria Rusticana (Mama Lucia) with the Verdi Chorus in 2024. Ms. Kushnick is a humble recipient of the Richard F. Gold Career Grant (2020).