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Jeanine Wilkinson and Christina Graffeo bring world-class musical training and decades of performance experience to their work creating recitals, concerts and event music for A Touch of Classical.
Bio
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Christina Graffeo has held leadership positions in several professional orchestras in her thirty-plus year career. She has played in the first stand of the viola sections of the Oregon Symphony, Colorado Symphony Orchestra, Oregon Bach Festival, Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, Eugene Opera, Oregon Festival of American Music, Portland Opera, Central City Opera, and Colorado Ballet, Oregon Mozart Players, Colorado Music Festival Orchestra, Boulder Philharmonic, the Ernst Bloch Festival, and the Denver Chamber Orchestra. Locally she serves as the principal violist for the Oak Ridge Symphony, and acting principal violist for Symphony of the Mountains, and has played with the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra and other regional orchestras. Christy as taught numerous private viola and violin students, and served as adjunct professor of viola at Maryville College. She is the founding violist of the Inner Voices String Quartet.
Christy holds a Bachelor’s Degree from Colorado University, and did graduate work at Yale University and Canada’s Banff Centre for the Performing Arts. She and her husband, Frank, are raising their son Enzo in Knoxville, where they have resided since 2000.
Jeanine Wilkinson is an active performer, teacher, and administrator involved in many different musical endeavors throughout East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia. Since taking up residence in Knoxville in 2005 she has played in the Knoxville Symphony, Symphony of the Mountains, Roanoke Symphony Orchestra, Oak Ridge Symphony, and the Bryan Symphony. Jeanine is the cellist for the Inner Voices String Quartet. She holds a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Oregon and a Master’s degree from the University of Tennessee. In 2005 she was honored to be invited to perform with the National Repertory Orchestra Music Festival.
Jeanine is currently Director of Operations for the Tennessee Cello Workshop and has served as adjunct music faculty at both Tennessee Tech University and the Cookeville campus of Nashville State Community College. She teaches several private cello students, and resides in Knoxville with her husband, Mathew Wilkinson, an accomplished cellist.