Christian was a member of the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony for 20 years before leaving to pursue a career in administration and free-lance bassoon. He has performed regularly at the Festival of the Sound, the Elora Festival, the Ottawa Chamber Music Festival, the Westben Festival, and has appeared with the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, the Toronto Symphony, and the Orchestra of the Kirov Theatre, working with conductors Zubin Mehta and Valery Gergiev among others, as well as all the leading orchestras in southern Ontario.
Christian was a featured soloist on a 2016 re-recording and release of The Mozart Effect (available on Spotify). Theatre experiences include the 2019 Mirvish production of The King and I, the Shaw Festival orchestra in the productions of Wonderful Town by Bernstein and Sondheim’s A Little Night Music, the Theatre 20 production of Bloodless: The Trial of Burke and Hare, and performances of Man of La Mancha, The Beaux’ Stratagem, and The Music Man at the Stratford Festival.