Ms. Bailey Davis has been performing around the Buffalo area as both soloist and ensemble player since she was eleven years old.After soloing with the BPO on two daytime youth concerts in 1990, she made her professional debut in 1992, at age 18, soloing with New York City chamber orchestra Philharmonic Virtuosi, at Artpark, in Lewiston, NY. She has also soloed with Ars Nova Musicians, and Amherst Symphony.
After two performances of Carl Nielsen's Concerto for Flute and Orchestra with the BPO in 1997, the Buffalo News called her playing "immaculately accurate, but with a winning, casual, often jaunty approach to phrasing, while extremely complex runs and ornamentations seemed artlessly simple, beguiling sculptures of sound".
Ms. Bailey Davis has performed on almost a dozen studio and live recordings with the BPO.After the BPO's release of Rhapsodie, a disc of French music, the American Record Guide said that is her solo in Ravel's Daphnis et Chloe Suite 2: "… and Christine Lynn Bailey's flute solo is one of the sweetest and most touching ever captured on records".
Christine commissioned Tracing Mississippi, a concerto for flute and orchestra, from American Indian composer Jerod Impinchchaachaaha Tate, and performed the world premiere with the BPO in 2002. The performance was named in the Buffalo News' top ten concerts of 2002.Ms. Bailey Davis recorded the concerto in June 2007 with the San Francisco Symphony. The disc was released on Thunderbird Records, a new label dedicated entirely to American Indian music.
