Christie Anderson is a singer and award-winning conductor and Artistic Director of youth choir school Young Adelaide Voices (YAV). She is a founding member of the EVE vocal trio, and in 2022 Christie started on a further exciting creative challenge as the new Artistic Director of the multi-award-winning Adelaide Chamber Singers (ACS). Christie has sung, conducted and presented in many festivals in Australia and around the world.

As Artistic Director of YAV, Christie has developed a Composer in Residence and Commissioning program, a choir for young men, and the WATU Youth Choir Festival, which has been supporting young singers between the ages of 12–19 from South Australia and nationally since 2015.

Nationally, Christie is a regular guest conductor at the Gondwana National Choral School and has been guest presenter across Australia, including Festival of Voices, Desert Song Festival in Alice Springs and the Darwin Festival. In 2021 she and Aurora Vocal Ensemble were the recipients of a National Indigenous Music Award for their recording of The Djari Project with Galpu songman Guwanbal Gurruwiwi and Netanela Mizrahi.

Internationally, she has won awards in San Francisco and Bratislava, including an award for ‘Best Conductor of the Festival’. Christie has been a guest presenter at the Vox Mundi Festival in Timisoara, Romania, discussing Australian music for children’s and youth choirs.

Recent Adelaide Festival highlights include A Midsummer Night’s Dream with YAV as Fairy Chorus, and The Pulse with Gravity & Other Myths and Aurora in 2021. Christie received accolades for her direction of Aurora in The Pulse and her 10-minute improvisational vocal ‘flight’ which became a pivotal part of the show. 

At the 2022 Adelaide Festival, ACS performed the world premiere season of Watershed: The Death of Dr Duncan to great critical acclaim. With music by Joe Twist, libretto by Alana Valentine and Christos Tsiolkas, directed by Neil Armfield AM and musically directed and conducted by Christie Anderson, Watershed won the 2022 Ruby Award for “Outstanding Work or Event Within a Festival”.

Also in 2022, Christie was a part of the inaugural A Capella Academy at UKARIA, leading both ACS and Aurora. Christie will be taking the two groups again in the second iteration this year.

In 2023 Christie is Chorus Master for Verdi’s Messa da Requiem in Adelaide Festival, and continuing her work with ACS and YAV, including Aurora’s program at WOMAD.

In her spare time Christie watches her cats, bakes with her niece Kitty, is amazed by the creations of her nephew Jasper, and savours the mud kitchen cuisine of her littlest niece Izzy.

She enjoys it all.