Christine Banda Banks is currently principal violist with the Salem St. Louis Chamber Orchestra. She graduated with a Masters of Music from the Manhattan School of Music as a student of Lillian Fuchs. She then continued her viola studies with Sally Peck from the North Carolina School of the Arts. Ms. Banks has performed in numerous festivals including the Aspen Music Festival, Breckenridge Music Institute, AIMS Festival in Graz, Austria, Wintergreen Music Festival and the Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival. She is currently a freelance musician and has appeared on stage with headliners such as The Who, Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson, Peter Cetera, Mannheim Steamroller, Clay Aiken, Johnny Mathis, Moody Blues and Rod Stewart. In addition Christine has played as extra violist with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and toured throughout the United States as principal viola with the National Broadway Production of ‘Miss Saigon’. She has been on the faculty of Davidson College, SIUE and Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, AZ. She currently teaches violin and viola at St. Louis University.