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Christensen, Virginia

Violinist and viola player who is equally at home performing session work for country and western artists and contributing her virtuosity to smaller, collaborative classical music projects. She been a member of The Hanover Chamber Orchestra, The Nashville String Machine, The Nashville Symphony Orchestra, and The New Hampshire Symphony Orchestra.

As a session artist she has worked with a litany of country and pop artists, including Moe Bandy, George Burns, Janie Fricke, Crystal Gayle, Tom T. Hall , Jerry Lee Lewis, Reba McEntire, Mickey Newbury, The Oak Ridge Boys, T.G. Sheppard, The Statler Brothers, George Strait and Neil Young.

She has also appeared on a variety of classical music albums, including Hindemith: String Trios, Lee Carroll Levine… Plus! Music for Clarinet & Strings, Macchia, McMichael, Shen: Song Cycles, and Music for the Appalachian Trail. On 29th November 2005, she appeared with the Hanover Chamber Orchestra in the Handel Society of Dartmouth College’s Celebration of the Season concert.

Here’s Reba McEntire singing  “I Can See Forever in Your Eyes” which was from her Feel The Fire that Virginia performed on….

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