About Us

Onyx Lane is a creative production company and record label specializing in classical recording, orchestral production, film music, immersive audio, and interdisciplinary artistic projects. Founded by producers, composers, engineers, and performers Christina Giacona and Patrick Conlon, the Oklahoma City–based company partners with artists, orchestras, composers, universities, and cultural organizations to guide ambitious projects from their earliest creative concept through recording, post-production, distribution, and release.

Onyx Lane’s work is grounded in a collaborative approach that brings musical interpretation, technical expertise, and long-term artistic strategy into the same room. Rather than treating recording as the final step in a project, Giacona and Conlon work closely with artists throughout the entire process—helping shape repertoire, production plans, recording sessions, mixes, release strategies, and the larger story surrounding each work.

Their production and engineering credits appear on six GRAMMY®-nominated albums and the GRAMMY®-winning classical compendium An Adoption Story. Recent projects include Aaron Lazar’s Impossible Dream; Alike: My Mother’s Dream by Allison Charney and Benjamin Loeb; Se7en Seasons by Kitt Wakeley, Starr Parodi, and Jeff Eden Fair; Requiem of Light with Steven Fox and The Clarion Choir; Shayan by Charu Suri; and Aquamarine by Kirsten Agresta Copley.

Onyx Lane has collaborated with internationally recognized artists and organizations including Celtic Woman, Josh Groban, Leslie Odom Jr., Neil Patrick Harris, Kelli O’Hara, Loren Allred, Karen Slack, Noah Bendix-Balgley, Kurt Elling, Veronica Swift, Other Lives, the Oklahoma City Philharmonic, the Fort Smith Symphony, The Clarion Choir, the City of Prague Philharmonic, and ensembles and institutions throughout North America.

The company has become especially known for orchestral projects that connect exceptional performances with significant cultural stories. Its work with the Oklahoma City Philharmonic includes Jonathan Leshnoff’s Elegy, Violin Concerto No. 2, and Of Thee I Sing; Hannibal Lokumbe’s Veils of Justice, honoring civil rights leader Clara Luper; and Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate’s American Indian Symphony. Through Onyx Lane Records and international distribution partners including Naxos of America, these projects bring new American orchestral music and underrepresented cultural narratives to audiences around the world.

Giacona and Conlon are also active composers and multimedia artists. Their collaborative works include the visual album and immersive performance project Cube of Light and In the Waiting Room: Four Works for String Orchestra, which grew from their shared experience of illness, grief, resilience, and recovery. Their creative partnership reflects the broader philosophy behind Onyx Lane: that meaningful recordings are not simply documents of performance, but lasting artistic experiences capable of preserving memory, strengthening communities, and creating new ways of listening.