Christina George is a musicologist and pianist whose research deals with musical perception and its relationship to philosophical virtue. She earned her doctoral degree in musicology from Claremont Graduate University, where her primary work investigated the linguistic and conceptual changes which have accompanied the idea of “taste” and which have greatly transformed aesthetic dialogue since the mid-eighteenth century. Her dissertation tethers this concept of taste to a philosophical construct which stems chiefly from the Philosophie der Kunst of F. W. J. Schelling.
Current research projects focus on music’s place within the academy, the nature of aesthetic virtue insofar as it relates to the particular nature of art as put forth by C.P.E. Bach and J.J. Quantz, and an examination of the role philosophical taste plays amidst changing worship trends in North American churches engaged in contemporary and traditional worship practices.
She has written and presented on topics including taste and the philosophy of art, German Idealism, the role of the self in contemporary worship music, and the phenomenology of Jean-Luc Marion at conferences in the U.S. and Europe. She currently serves as Music Department Chair, Assistant Professor of Music, and Assistant Director of the Honors Program at Sterling College, where she teaches courses in Aesthetics, Philosophy of Worship, Music History, Aural Skills, Upper-level Music Theory, and Applied Piano.
Christie lives in Sterling, KS with her husband, Garrett, and their dog, Pippin.
Education:
Ph.D. in Musicology from Claremont Graduate University
M.A. in Music from Claremont Graduate University
B.M. in Piano Performance from Biola University
Diploma, Torrey Honors College