Overview
Christopher Macchio is an international classical-crossover vocalist, known globally for his command performances on LIVE international television from the White House, Madison Square Garden, a memorial tribute at the return rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, and his performance of the U.S. National Anthem at the 47th Presidential Inauguration.
He has performed 10 consecutive sold-out concerts as one of the three New York Tenors at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, made solo guest appearances with legendary producer David Foster (producer of Andrea Bocelli), and recently performed duets with Grammy-Winners Peabo Bryson, Al Jardine of the Beach Boys, and American Idol Finalist Haley Reinhart. After making his professional debut in a PBS-TV concert special Bell’Aria: Live from Las Vegas, he recently made his acting debut, being featured singing in two major Hollywood films, Cabrini (2024) (from Oscar-contender director Alejandro Monteverde, director of blockbuster hit Sound of Freedom), and DON Q (2024) starring Armand Assante (Mambo Kings).
Christopher Macchio is a gifted performer with a tenor voice of exceptional power and beauty. Classically trained at the Manhattan School of Music Conservatory, where he starred in Vincenzo Bellini’s I Puritani (Arturo), he returned to the opera stage last fall at the Wexford Opera House in Ireland, with appearances in Germany, Spain and Austria slated for 2025. Mr. Macchio began his professional career in 2011 starring in a concert special for PBS Television, followed up with appearances on FOX NEWS CHANNEL, FOX-TV, NBC-TV, ABC-TV, RAI (Italian Television), NTV (Turkish Television), and has now expanded into acting and studio recording with roles in two Hollywood Films and his two album releases, Dolci Momenti and O Holy Night.
Mr. MacchioI performs music across the musical spectrum and in over a dozen languages from classical arias, to Italian folk classics, to broadway favorites, right into the modern age with renditions of ballads from the songbooks of Andrea Bocelli and Josh Groban. There’s truly somethingfor every ear, and it’s all woven together seamlessly by stirring orchestral arrangements that scale from large to small to accommodate the widest variety of venues. Christopher Macchio is an artistic forceto behold, and always leaves his audiences breathless and yearning for more!
The Story
Macchio was born on August 1, 1978, to an Italian-American family in Holbrook, Long Island, a suburb of New York City. His father Dennis Macchio owned and operated an economics forecasting firm, was an adjunct economics professor at Long Island University at C.W. Post, and later became a professional racecar driver, eventually owning and operating a series of respected racing schools across the United States. Christopher learned to drive race cars from an early age, and maintains his passion for speed on and off the racetrack to this day. His mother Lorraine Macchio (née Lawrence) was a homemaker and later worked at a local bank.
Christopher Macchio in Formula Class Race Car
A gifted student in his youth, his singing voice was discovered in his Sachem High School chorus, a class in which he had reluctantly enrolled to meet a state graduation requirement. Encouraged by his chorus teacher, he shifted his focus from academic pursuits to music. He spent the next two summers at the USDAN Center for the Creative and Performing Arts, through which he was offered private vocal instruction by New York University adjunct voice professor and Holocaust survivor John Kuhn. He then trained in classical vocal performance at the Manhattan School of Music under legendary Metropolitan Opera baritone Theodor Uppman. In 2007 he earned a B.A. in European History from Stony Brook University.
Christopher Macchio performing in "Sweeney Todd"
In 2010, Macchio signed with EMI Records. In 2011, he performed in a related PBS concert special entitled “Bell’Aria: Live From Las Vegas”, followed by television appearances on Fox, ABC, NBC, and Rai Italia. In 2024, he made his Hollywood film debut as “Giovanni the singer” in the biopic “Cabrini” by director Alejandro Monteverde, followed by an appearance singing in mafia comedy “Don Q”, starring Armand Assante.
He performs both as a solo artist and as a member of the New York Tenors, touring internationally. His concert appearances have included sold-out performances at New York's Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, Atlantic City, Philadelphia, Miami, Dallas, San Francisco and Los Angeles, as well as cities across Latin America, Europe and the Middle East .
He regularly appears at charitable events and galas, including for Tunnel To Towers, and a 2017 performance on stage with legendary music producer David Foster for Muhammad Ali's “Celebrity Fight Night”. At the 2020 Republican National Convention, Macchio performed "Nessun Dorma," "Hallelujah," "Ave Maria," "God Bless America," and "America the Beautiful."[3] During the 2024 election cycle, Macchio performed at the 2024 Republican Convention, President Donald J. Trump's return rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, serenaded the Presidential Candidate and First Lady Melania with “New York, New York” at Madison Square Garden, and invited the President-elect and Elon Musk on stage for a trio of “God Bless America” at a private victory gala at Mar-a-Lago. In 2025, he is scheduled to sing "The Star-Spangled Banner" at the second inauguration of Donald Trump.