Christine Renée Kralik, DMA, MM, BM   

Dr. Christine Renée Kralik is the Cello Professor and Academic Lecturer at Middle Tennessee State University.  Previously she held the cello faculty positions at the University of Mississippi and Angelo State University in Texas. Dr. Kralik is a thriving professional cellist who received her Doctorate of Musical Arts with an emphasis in cello performance from Texas Tech University in May of 2018.  She holds a Masters in Music from the Cleveland Institute of Music and a Bachelor of Music from the University of Utah, where she was also named as the Outstanding Senior. She studied cello performance with Jeffrey Lastrapes at Texas Tech University, Cleveland Orchestra cellist Richard Weiss at the Cleveland Institute of Music, and Utah Symphony cellist Pegsoon Whang at the University of Utah.   Dr. Kralik is the principal cellist of the North Mississippi Symphony and the Tennessee Philharmonic. She is the acting principal cellist of the Mobile Symphony in Alabama for the 2023 – 2024 concert season. She was previously a member of the Lubbock, Amarillo, and Midland-Odessa Symphonies. She also has performed in the Jackson Tennessee Symphony, the Memphis Symphony, and the Lubbock Chamber Orchestra as principal cello.   Along with her active orchestral career, she has performed in many recitals all over the country, collaborating with other musicians for numerous events and performances. Dr. Kralik is a member of the Kaleidoscopia String Trio with members Dr. Andrea Dawson Professor of violin at Middle Tennessee State University, and Dr. Ayn Balija Professor of viola at the University of Virginia. Dr. Kralik loves performing chamber music and has various planned performances with her colleagues from the University of Mississippi, such as works for clarinet, cello, and piano throughout the 2023- 2024 academic year.   Dr. Kralik recently recorded her own album of Romantic era cello sonatas, to be released later in 2023. She recorded the Grieg cello sonata in A minor, Mendelssohn cello sonata no.2, Sibelius Malinconia op.20, and Mendelssohn’s Lied Ohne Worte. She also has plans in creating another album of works for cello and piano in November of 2023.   Along with holding a busy performance schedule, Dr. Kralik finds great joy in teaching. She enjoys working with the cello students of Middle Tennessee State University as well as cello students in the surrounding area and from all over the world.  In the summer of 2018, Dr. Kralik joined as faculty for the Tennessee’s Governor’s School for the Arts, where she works closely with students in cello master-classes and sectionals. Dr. Kralik enjoys performing in the exciting faculty chamber music series throughout the duration of the Governor’s School, collaborating with her fellow colleagues. Dr. Kralik performs on a German Wilhelm Hammig cello dated 1907 and an unnamed French cello bow thought to be from the Pierre Simon School circa 1880.

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Principal cellist of North Mississippi Symphony in Tupelo Mississippi (2019 – Present, 2023 - 2024 Season) 

Principal Cellist Substitute for Mobile Symphony 2023 – 2024 Season 

Principal Cellist of the Tennessee Philharmonic (2023 – 2024 Season)  

Member of the Stones River Chamber Players for MTSU Murfreesboro Tennessee (2023 – 2024) Stones River Chamber Players Operetta – The Mousewife A Children’s Operetta by Steve Rouse

Planned Collaboration at MTSU, Kralik Faculty Recital in collaboration with Piano- Prof. Amanda Johnston of The University of Mississippi Location: Hinton Hall (November 2023) Francis Poulenc Cello Sonata “Canterbury” by Colin Eatock Halcyon by Jocelyn Morlock Prokofiev Cello Sonata

Planned Album Recording of works performed with Prof. Amanda Johnston in November of 2023

Planned Collaboration at MTSU, Faculty Recital in with University of Mississippi Clarinet -Dr. Michael Rowlett, and Piano- Prof. Adrienne Park Location: Hinton Hall October 2023Craftsbury Trio by Gwyneth Walker Ohe by Pascal Dusapin“Fantasy Trio” by Robert Muczynski Clarinet Trio in A minor Op.114 by Johannes Brahms 

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