Christine Stevenson enjoys a distinguished career as a piano recitalist and concerto soloist throughout the UK and abroad. Her concerts continually draw critical acclaim for her virtuosity, musicianship, and the engaging rapport she establishes with audiences of all ages. She is an Artistic Director/Tutor at the annual Summer School for Pianists at Stowe in Buckinghamshire, UK [visit www.pianosummerschool.co.uk for details] and is on the staff of the Junior Department of the Royal College of Music in London. She writes about piano music at www.notesfromapianist.wordpress.com.

This season's engagements include recitals in Essex, Kent, Oxford, Cambridge, Suffolk, Buckingham and London. Repertoire will feature works by Ravel to celebrate the 150th anniversary of his birth, as well as Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, which Ravel orchestrated. She will again be giving masterclasses at the Summer School for Pianists at Stowe and at the Pianissimi course at RHS Holbrook.

Recent concerts and presentations have explored the music of 'Chopin and Liszt - the Patriot and the Pilgrim', as well as 'Rachmaninoff's Revolutions' - an overview of Rachmaninoff's career, featuring not only the political revolutions that shaped his life, but also charting the revolution of recorded sound which enabled the world to share the legacy of his recordings.

Christine's recordings include music by the award-winning British composer. Thomas Hewitt Jones, and a recording of Liszt's Années de Pèlerinage - II - Italie released on CD and iTunes in the year of Liszt's bicentenary, which received excellent reviews.

Winner of the prestigious Dom Polski Chopin Competition, Christine's wide experience includes the premiere CD recording of Alkan's Rondo Brillant with members of the London Mozart Players, live and recorded broadcasts for the ABC and BBC, a period as Musician in Residence at the Chisholm Institute, performances in a film featuring chamber music of Margaret Sutherland and Helen Gifford, and an Arts Council tour of northern Australia in collaboration with selected actors, a visual artist and a dancer in multi-arts presentations.

An inspiring communicator, Christine has been invited to give masterclasses at Morley College, the City Lit Institute, Jackdaws Music Education Trust, the Hindhead Music Centre, for the Victorian Music Teachers' Association in Australia and for the London Piano Circle. She is in demand as a teacher, with many former pupils now active in the music profession. 

Born in Melbourne, Christine graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts with distinction, being twice awarded the Gaitskell prize for the most outstanding student. She studied with pupils of Cortot, of Nadia Boulanger and of Michelangeli, and with the celebrated English pianist, Ronald Smith, also participating in masterclasses given by Sergei Dorensky, Aldo Ciccolini and Vlado Perlemuter. @notesfromapiano