Christina DeVaughn
Soprano
New England Finalist, 2001

Soprano Christina E. DeVaughn earned her Bachelor's Degree in Music from the University of Massachusetts at Boston where she was the recipient of the Benjamin S. Carson Scholarship Award and the Joan C. Higgins Prize in the Arts. She is currently pursuing her Master's Degree in Opera Performance at The Boston Conservatory where she studies voice with William Cotten, vocal coaching with Michael Strauss and dramatic coaching with Sondra Kelly. She is the recipient of The Boston Conservatory Music Division Scholarship and The Susan Glover Hitchcock Award. Her operatic roles include Theresa I in Four Saints in Three Acts and Clori in L'Egisto which will be performed in March under the baton of Martin Pearlman.

After graduation in May, Christina will be a member of the Chautauqua Young Artist Program and will perform the role of Annina in La Traviata. For the past five years, Ms. DeVaughn has performed as a soloist in the acclaimed Christmas favorite, Langston Hughes' Black Nativity, produced by the National Association of African-American Artists. She has also performed as a soloist in the annual Gospel Night at the Pops at Symphony Hall. She has worked with the Boston Lyric Opera, the Cambridge Lieder and Opera Company, The New England Conservatory's Continuing Education Opera Workshop, The Crittenden Opera Workshop, Chorus pro Musica, and is currently a member of The New England Spiritual Ensemble. In 2000, Ms DeVaughn was awarded Third Place in The Leontyne Price Vocal Arts Competition. That same year she placed first in the NATS Boston Chapter Song Festival where she was also awarded the prize for Best American Song. In 1998 she was awarded the Mary H. Wilcox Stipend Award by the Jubilate Chorale of Brockton, Massachusetts.

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