Christine Guter Lecture and Discussion

On February 1, 2027, Christine Guter will lead a discussion about what it takes to succeed in graduate school as a vocalist, singing for film scoring, and jazz singing in Southern California. On February 2, 2027, Guter will sing creative interpretations of jazz, pop, and Brazilian songs with a four-piece rhythm section and later, give a vocal jazz master class to Berklee student vocalists.

Guter is a jazz vocalist and studio singer in the Los Angeles, California, area. She has a multitude of studio credits and has sung on dozens of Hollywood soundtracks including Disney’s Wish, Hocus Pocus 2, Dr. Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Mulan, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Sing, Ready Player One, Star Trek Beyond, The Jungle Book, Jurassic World, Despicable Me 2, Men in Black 3, and Spiderman 3. She has sung or recorded with legends such as Bobby McFerrin, Joe Williams, Maynard Ferguson, Barry Manilow, Danny Elfman, Clare Fischer, Don Shelton, and more.

An extraordinary educator, Guter is active internationally as a lecturer, adjudicator, and clinician, and has conducted numerous all-state jazz and honor choirs. Guter is a member of the California Alliance for Jazz, the Jazz Education Network, the California Music Educators Association, and the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA). She has served on the board of ACDA Western Division and the California Choral Directors Association as vocal jazz chair. She is proud to be on the board for Jazz Education Abroad and is the jazz voice instructor for the Thailand Jazz Workshop. She also works as a teaching artist on the Imagineering Campus at Disneyland.

In 2018, Guter received the prestigious Jazz Education Achievement Award from DownBeat magazine for her work as a jazz educator. She is currently the director of vocal jazz at the Bob Cole Conservatory of Music at California State University Long Beach where she teaches private jazz voice lessons, vocal styles classes, class jazz piano, jazz theory, and directs the university’s award-winning vocal jazz ensemble, Pacific Standard Time.