Christine Hoerning

Christine Elizabeth Hoerning is a native New Yorker, and Montreal-based clarinetist. A doubler from the age of 12, her primary instruments include clarinets, saxophones, bassoon, oboe, and flute.

While residing in her native New York, Christine worked extensively in pit orchestras for off-Broadway productions. Christine was the
winner of the 2012 Long Island Chamber Music Festival Concerto Competition, she substituted with the Northshore Symphony Orchestra, and was an assistant/woodwind coach for the Long Island Youth Orchestra. Since arriving in Montreal, in 2012, she is principal clarinetist with l’Orchestre Philharmonique des Musiciens de Montreal. In collaboration with the Montreal Symphony and des Quartier des Spectacles she performed as a soloist for the promotion of the Montreal Symphony’s ’Viree Classique Summer Concert Series’. She holds the 2nd clarinet position with l’Orchestre des Musiciens du Monde, and has substituted with the Kingston Symphony and the Orchestra of Northern New York.

Christine was invited to hold presentations at the Crane School of Music, discussing performance, practice & organization as a young professional. She appeared as a guest artist at The Annual Clarinet Summit at the Crane School of Music in 2011. In 2013 she was a featured alumna in a S.U.N.Y Potsdam publication which was also featured by McGill University.

An avid performer of contemporary music, Christine performed with the Musical Theatre Montreal, and with Montreal Nouvelle Musique at the 2015 Nuit Blanche Festival. She performs frequently with composer/conductor Andre Pappathomas and l’Ensemble Mrurta Mersti. In conjunction with Opera Immediat she has performed in the orchestras of the popular operas Die Fledermaus, The Elixir of Love, Aida and Carmen. Christine joined the opera orchestra at LyricArezzo in Italy, in 2014, for their in concert performance of Puccini’s ’La Boheme’ under the baton of Maestro Stefano Pagliano. Most recently she premiered a new opera entitled ’Slideshow’ with acclaimed Quebecoise mezzo-soprano Marie-Annick Beliveau at La Chapelle Theatre in Montreal.

As a freelancer Christine worked with a variety of musicians and ensembles, spanning variousgenres; having had performances at the National Arts Center in Ottawa, recording all wind tracks for a jazz fusion album with singer Tom Mauro, and making guest appearances with the gypsy-folk band Balkan Kefana. She is the founder and artistic director of the Verisimo Collective, a chamber music ensemble which specializes in the merging of chamber music and film. The ensemble performs classical and contemporary chamber music accompanied by original films designed specifically for the ensemble and inspired by the music.