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Name: Christine Croshaw
Field:
Musician
Productions:
Robert Powell in Dickens' Villains
Biography: Christine Croshaw has enjoyed a long and successful career as a solo pianist, accompanist and chamber music player.
Her concert engagements have taken her to most major venues around the UK, including many appearances at the Wigmore Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall and Purcell Room. She has performed across the continent in France, Germany, Austria, Spain, Italy, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Poland, Switzerland, and also in North America. Recent festival appearances include Cheltenham, Lichfield, Kensington and Chelsea, Ludlow, Chichester, Lisbon, Toarmina and Bermuda
Christine has been privileged to appear in concert with many distinguished instrumentalists most notably the legendary violinist Nathan Milstein, Gyorgy Pauk, Alexander Balanescu, cellist Antonio Janigro, French horn player Alan Civil and many of the world’s leading flautists including Peter-Lukas Graf, Michel Debost, Robert Winn and Jacques Zoon, as well as many solo principals from the major orchestras across Europe and North America.
Chamber ensembles she has played with include the Hanson Quartet, Roth Quartet, Pro Arte Piano Quartet, London Saxophone Quartet, Music Deco (with mezzo soprano Meriel Dickinson and saxophonist Christopher Gradwell) and the Nash Ensemble.
From the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s she was official accompanist for the Kathleen Ferrier Competition at the Wigmore Hall.
In recent years, she has been compiling and performing in words and music recitals and revues with some of the country’s leading actors including Edward Fox, Prunella Scales, Hannah Gordon, Sir Derek Jacobi and Charles Dance. Christine has frequently appeared on television and in John Boorman’s film ‘Hope and Glory’.
Recordings have featured albums for the American label Golden Crest, with flautist Mark Thomas and a series of CDs for Meridian Records, which are often played on BBC Radio 3 and Classic FM. These feature solo piano and chamber music of the early 19th century with artists including clarinettist David Campbell, flautist Clive Conway and French horn player Stephen Stirling. A CD of music by Saint Saens will be released shortly and Christine records a third disc of piano music by Hummel in spring 2010 on a Graf piano from the 1820s.
Christine began playing at the piano age of 4, subsequently studying with the famous teacher Harold Craxton, before winning a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music to study with Vivian Langrish and Gordon Green. She won most of the major prizes for solo piano, ensemble playing and accompaniment including the Elena Gerhardt Inter-Collegiate Lieder Prize (awarded by the legendary accompanist Gerald Moore) and the coveted Chappell Gold Medal.
Christine has developed a reputation as an inspirational teacher, having long been fascinated by the psychology of learning and performing. This has led her to explore many body/mind therapies and disciplines; Yoga, Feldenkrais, Pilates and T’ai Chi. She is a qualified Master Practitioner of NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) which greatly informs her work as an international performance coach.
Christine has been a Professor of Piano, Chamber Music and Accompaniment at Trinity College of Music (London), for many years, having taught previously at the Royal Academy of Music. She was one of the founder pianists of the International Musicians’ Seminar Prussia Cove, Cornwall and has served regularly on the teaching faculties of the International Gulbenkian Festival, Portugal, Oxford Chamber Music Summer School and the Oxford Flute International Summer School.
For gaining distinction in the profession, Christine has been elected an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music and an Honorary Fellow of Trinity College of Music.
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