Christie Anderson is a singer and award-winning conductor. Christie has been Artistic Director of Young Adelaide Voices since 2009, and became Artistic Director and Conductor of the multi-award-winning Adelaide Chamber Singers in 2022. Christie is a founding member of the EVE vocal trio and has sung, conducted and presented in many festivals in Australia and around the world.
As Artistic Director of YAV, Christie developed a Composer in Residence and Commissioning program, a choir for changing voices and the WATU Youth Choir Festival, supporting young singers from 12-19 since 2015. She formed the upper voice ensemble Aurora, receiving critical acclaim for their collaboration and creation of The Pulse with Gravity and Other Myths and their recording of The Djari Project, for which Christie won a National Indigenous Music Award in 2021.
Christie has been part of two Ruby Award-winning projects for Outstanding Performance in a Festival – as Musical Director of Watershed, the Drowning of Dr Duncan (ACS, AF22) and The Pulse (AF21).
Recently Christie has been Chorus Master for Messa Da Requiem with Zurich Ballet and Conductor of All Flesh is Fire commissioned by ACS for the Art Gallery of SA’s 18th Biennial of Art Inner Sanctum. She was soloist and conductor for The Pulse as part of Ruhrfestspiele in Germany and toured to France and Italy with YAV, winning the Youth Choir and Creative Performance prizes, with the highest score in the festival’s history.
2025 sees Christie as the Chorus Master and offstage conductor for Kaija Saariaho’s seminal opera Innocence for Adelaide Festival, tour with Aurora and GOM to South Asia for The Pulse and celebrate 40 incredible years of Adelaide Chamber Singers.
