background and training

Christina Viola Oorebeek is an American-Dutch citizen.  She immersed herself in music as a profession at 21, teaching herself as much as possible about jazz and blues music.  In this period, she went on to study classical Indian music at the school of Ravi Shankar in Los Angeles, and sang in an semi-acoustic rock band from 1967-1969 in San Francisco. She worked for a long period as a teacher and improvising pianist at the  Department for Dance at the Arts College in Amsterdam. During these years, in which she earned a degree at the Conservatory of

Amsterdam with pianist Willem Brons. she decided that ‘making’ autonomous music was the most important thread which she wanted to follow.

At age 50 she commenced officially on her career as a composer studying at the Rotterdam Conservatory with Klaas de Vries.  She was granted the Composition Prize upon graduation in 1999.  At the Conservatory of Amsterdam, she studied instrumentation with Theo Verbey.

She participated in master classes with Magnus Lindberg in Amsterdam and Toshio Hosokawa at the Akiyoshidai Music Festival in Japan.

These experiences have formed a pluriform pool of musical influences and experiences for her composing work.  Her ideal is to exist in a continual state of (re)discovery and invention.    

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