Michael Christie (born June 30, 1974 in Buffalo, New York) is a Grammy-winning American conductor.
[1] Christie graduated from the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music with a bachelor's degree in trumpet performance.
His conducting teachers have included Peter Jaffe, Eiji Oue, and Robert Spano.
[10] In parallel, he concluded his Phoenix Symphony tenure in 2013, at which time he took the title of music director laureate, for a three-season term.
[16] In 2019, Christie was appointed Music Director of the New West Symphony, serving the greater Los Angeles area in Thousand Oaks and Oxnard, California.