Background
With Welsh, Scottish and Irish ancestry, Christine Margaret Hughes was born at Hampton, near Malpas, Cheshire, England.
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Chris Michell
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She attended the University of Liverpool (1969-1972) and the Guildhall School of Music (1972-1973), London.
Career
Michell became sub-principal flute/piccolo with Welsh National Opera for five years (1976-1981). Free-lanced with Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, British Broadcasting Corporation, English National Ballet, Opera North, Manchester Camerata and Northern Ballet until 1986. Teaching included Royal College of Music, Junior Department, University of Lancaster, Putney High School for Girls, Royal School, Bath and Wells Cathedral School, Somerset.
Astarte Music Productions set up in 1989, was Michell’s own independent record label.
Mark Vibrans produced her first album Song for Sophie 1989 for Astarte Music. In 1991 she recorded Dolphin Love with Clifford White and Arnie Sage and this proved to be a popular album in United Kingdom, United States of America and Australia.
In 1999, Michell (as Christa Michell) recorded Tibetan Chakra Meditations with Ben Scott, giving a 5% Royalty from each album sold to the Tibet Relief Fund, London. In 2001 she had a personal audience and performed for His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala, India.
She presented him with her album Tibetan Freedom Chants, which was recorded with monk Ven.Bhagdro, to raise money and awareness for the Tibetan cause.
