Cristina Cutts

About Cristina

Principal Tuba of The Phoenix Symphony and Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra, Cristina Cutts grew up in South Africa, England, New York, and New Mexico. She was the 2016 Young Artist winner of the International Tuba Euphonium Competition, and the first tubist in the history of the Pasadena Showcase Competition to win their Grand Prize. She has performed as a guest tubist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Seattle Symphony Orchestra, San Diego Symphony Orchestra, and the Louisville Orchestra. From 2022-2024, she served as the tubist for Seraph Brass, an award-winning brass quintet whose mission it is to highlight marginalized performers and composers, and she is featured on the album Showcase which was released in 2025. Cutts has appeared as a soloist in the Kennedy Center, with the Colburn Orchestra, and on the radio show Performance Today with Fred Child. Cutts has served as a faculty member and clinician all over the world for organizations including the Lieksa Brass Week, the Gravissimo Festival, Brevard Music Center, Interlochen Center for the Arts, and most recently has been on faculty at Arizona State University and The Ohio State University. She received an Alumni Enterprise Award from Music Academy of the West in 2021, and is a proud recipient of several grants from the Sphinx Organization's National Alliance for Audition Support. Cutts is a graduate of the Interlochen Arts Academy, the Colburn School, and the Curtis Institute of Music. Her primary mentors include Richard Antoine White, Thomas Riccobono, Norman Pearson, Paul Krzywicki, Craig Knox, and Chris Olka.