Kristen Toedtman holds a Master of Music degree from the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Vocal Performance. She began her formal music training studying music theory and singing as a child with the Children's Chorus of Maryland. Next she attended the Manhattan School of Music prep division studying violin. After a childhood of piano, violin and saxophone lessons, she went on to Indiana University where she shifted her focus to singing and studied with Martina Arroyo. Under the baton of Paul Hillier she sang and recorded with the Pro Arte Singers and Theatre of Voices. She continued with singing (opera, early and new music) in her graduate studies at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, working with new music pioneer Phylis Bryn-Julson and soloing with the Peabody Renaissance Ensemble. She also continued premiering new works, working closely with composer Judah Adashi on several projects. Shortly after completing her degree she began to collaborate with lutenist Mark Cudek as Duo Encina, touring the east coast singing popular and classical music from renaissance Spain, France and England.

Baltimore continued to be home to Kristen in the years following, her schedule rich with opportunities in the Baltimore-Washington area as recitalist and oratorio soloist. She worked as soloist and on the voice faculty of the Handel Choir of Baltimore and sang regularly in her downtown church.

Her move to Los Angeles was meant to be temporary. Kristen was to compose and direct the music for a Robert Anton Wilson play being produced there. Once the play was in production, however, Kristen discovered her former Indiana University Pro Arte colleagues were also in Los Angeles and needed another singer for their critically acclaimed group The Concord Ensemble. She dove in wholeheartedly and continues to perform and tour with the group. In addition, she joined the ranks of the Los Angeles Master Chorale and has also been heard singing with Peter Rutenberg's Capella.