Biography

Christina Mixemong completed her doctoral coursework in viola performance and pedagogy and after previously earning her Master of Arts in Viola Performance at the University of Iowa where she studied viola with Prof. Christine Rutledge and violin with Prof. Katherine Wolfe. Previously she has studied violin and viola with Jon and Lynne Rumney in Minot, North Dakota while a student at Minot State University. Christina has held positions with the Minot Symphony Orchestra, Bismarck-Mandan Symphony Orchestra, and the Western Plains Opera Company.

Christina has been Principal Viola with the Dubuque Symphony Orchestra since 2007. In February 2020 she accepted the Orchestra Librarian position with the DSO. She gets to combine her love of “playing with paper” with her love of music.

Christina was an Applied Music Associate in viola at Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa from 2007-2012, where her duties included teaching viola and violin lessons to both music majors and non-majors.

She was on faculty at Marion Music Academy in Marion, IA 2018-2022. She taught private lessons on viola and violin.

2021-2025, Christina was an owner and viola/violin faculty at Dynamic Music Studios in Coralville, IA where she taught private viola and violin lessons as well as group classes.

In November 2025 Christina started an exciting new venture: Mixemong Viola/Violin Studio in Iowa City, IA. For the first time she is on her own and in a beautiful studio located in downtown Iowa City. She teaches private lessons in viola and violin to students ages 3 to adult.

Christina is very dedicated to private studio teaching and has almost 30 years’ experience. She has had students in the Cedar Rapids Metropolitan Orchestra, Kennedy Honor Orchestra in Cedar Rapids, IMEA Middle School Honor Orchestra, and Iowa All State Orchestra Festival.

Christina is a North Dakota native, currently living in a green house in Cedar Rapids with her husband Rob and her three sons, Nicos, Gilles, and Malcolm.