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Christine Hestwood

Christine Hestwood is a Pittsburgh-based conductor, educator and singer who has enjoyed a long association with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Her past projects include work in audience engagement and music education advocacy and her favorite projects include the Night of 2,000 Stars (co-director), a 1996 project that featured 2,000 high school singers and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.   She served as co-director of the April 2013 Music for the Spirit concert, where more than 1,500 singers from Pittsburgh area high schools, colleges and community choirs joined voices to sing with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.  She was the assistant conductor of the Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh and music director of the Junior Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh. Hestwood is a vocal music teacher in the Upper St. Clair School District and the director of music at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Upper St. Clair. Hestwood sings with Seraphic Singers, a 12-voice professional women’s chorus based in Pittsburgh. Hestwood earned degrees from Duquesne University (B.S. in voice and music education) and Carnegie Mellon University (M.M. in conducting), where she studied with Robert Page. Hestwood is honored and delighted to continue Marvin and Bob’s dream!