Biography

Christine Richardson has been a music educator for 37 years teaching band, orchestra, choir and elementary music in Banning, California. She holds a Bachelor of Music degree from University of Southern California and a teaching credential from California State University Fullerton. Christine studied music composition with Lynn Blake John 2021-2023, and her current instructor is Robert Barrett. She is a member of the National Association of Composers (NACUSA), the Society of Composers Inc., and the Boston New Music Initiative.

Currently, Christine plays horn for both the Empire Wind Ensemble and the Redlands Community Orchestra.

Christine has been composing since childhood, starting piano lessons at age five, then joining the school band playing trumpet and French horn for many years. Since she retired, she re-discovered the joy and thrill of composing music for orchestra, concert band, and small ensembles. She enjoys writing programmatic music, describing some of her favorite scenic places she sees when hiking locally in California and when travelling to places like Grand Canyon, Kenya and Norway. She is also a volunteer for the Wildlands Conservancy at Oak Glen, California.

Education

B.M. Bachelor of Music (Music Education) University of Southern California

California Teaching Credential California State University Fullerton

Master of Science (Counseling Psychology) California Baptist University

Orff Training Levels I & II

Private Composition Study with Lynn Blake John 2021-2023.

Private Composition Study with Robert Barrett 2023.

Awards and Prizes

Honorable Mention Northwest Horn Symposium, “Still I Rise”, 2023.

Finalist Northern California Viola Society semi-finalist “Depths of the Sea” (unaccompanied viola solo) 2022.

Cascadia Composers selected “Tall Trees” Brass Quintet for their “Conflict & Resolution” Concert with the Rose City Brass Quintet.

Great Plains Composer Workshop 2021.

Premiers/Performances

Rose City Brass Quintet (Cascadia Composers) “Tall Trees” 2023. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SC-upYv5xU

Redlands Community Orchestra “Champion Lodgepole Pine” 2023.

San Bernardino Valley College Concert Band “Long Journey into Dawn” 2023.

Cerritos College Concert Band premier “Sing Hosanna” 2022.

Mount San Jacinto College premier of “Champion Lodgepole Pine” 2022.

Memberships

Boston New Music Initiative

NACUSA National Association of Composers

The Society of Composers, Inc.

Empire Wind Ensemble, principal horn.

Redlands Community Orchestra, horn