Ms Christine Cairns

Career: mezzo-soprano; performed with orchs incl: Berlin Philharmonic, LA Philharmonic, London Philharmonic, Royal Philharmonic, LSO, Vienna Philharmonic, BBC Scottish, Cleveland and Philadelphia Orchs, Euro Community Youth Orch; worked with conductors incl: Sir Colin Davis, André Previn, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Yuri Temirkanov, Simon Rattle, Christoph von Dohnányi, John Lubbock; currently giving concerts to raise money for autism, recorded fund-raising CD Songs for Alexander (2002), chm and fndr Music for Autism; teacher (singing) Birmingham Conservatoire 2000-; Recordings incl: Mendelssohn's Midsummer Night's Dream (with André Previn and the Vienna Philharmonic) 1986, Prokofiev's Alexander Nevsky (with André Previn and the LA Philharmonic) 1986, Mendelssohn's Die Erste Walpurgisnacht (with Christoph von Dohnányi and the Cleveland Orch) 1988