Biography

Kristen Toedtman has performed as soloist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, New World Symphony, Britt Festival Orchestra, Corona del Mar Festival Orchestra, Baltimore Concert Artists, and Musica Angelica orchestras, at Walt Disney Concert Hall, Carnegie Hall, the Hollywood Bowl, and other venues around the country. She makes her San Francisco Symphony debut with these performances.

With her partner, Chris Pumphrey, she sings songs of healing and praise for the wonders of creation to create space for listeners to meditate, heal, and explore their inner worlds. She has led singers in homeless shelters, health clinics, and on Skid Row. As director of the Community Chorus of Peabody, she brought the choir through the pandemic, emerging to join the Baltimore Symphony in a new realization of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony as a part of the Global Ode to Joy project. She has two self-released records available on all online platforms as well as on her website.


(January 2023)