Christina Wright is highly sought after as a pianist, accompanist, and vocal coach; she was born in New York, NY, and grew up in the English Channel Islands and Canada. She is currently pursuing her Doctoral degree and is a Teaching Assistant in Collaborative Piano at University of Texas at Austin with Anne Epperson.
Ms. Wright has performed in Boston venues including the Harvard Fogg Art Museum, Jordan Hall, MIT, Longy School of Music, and the Lily Pad in Cambridge. She has also performed benefit concerts in Connecticut, Western Massachusetts, and throughout British Columbia. Recently, she has won many awards for piano, including the American Federation of Musicians (AFM) Performance Fund Scholarship, New England Conservatory Lackey-Eliot Scholarship, Fletcher Piano Scholarship (UVic), Eugenie Ngai Memorial Award in Collaborative Piano, and the Florence Hamblett Memorial Award for Outstanding Student Accompanist. She has accompanied for the voice studios of Patricia Misslin, Alexandra Browning, Delores Ziegler, and James Mcdonald, and the instrumental students of Miriam Fried, Laurence Lesser, Anne Akiko Myers, and Donald Weilerstein.

Master class performances include work with musicians such as Warren Jones, Alan Smith, Kenneth Griffiths, Roger Vignoles, Pierre Vallet, Walter Moore, Jo Kondo, Rudolf Jansen, Frantisek Maly, and Helmut Deutsch.
Ms. Wright won the ‘Johann Strauss Scholarship for Advanced Study in Austria’, which enabled her to study for a summer at the Franz-Schubert-Institut, Baden-bei-Wien. She has also participated in the ‘Niagara International Chamber Music Festival’ in Ontario, and the ‘Ameropa Chamber Music Festival’ in Prague, Czech Republic. She has performed in concert series including Apollo Arts in Sacramento, CA, St. Paul’s Church in Boston, All Saints Concert Series in Worcester, the Whitehead Piano Concert Series at MIT, and the Christ Church Summer Recital series in Victoria, BC. In 2006, she returned to Austria to perform in the 'American Institute for Musical Studies' concerts in Graz and attends the 'Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice' led by Steven Drury. For six weeks in 2008 she was Guest Pianist with the Orquesta Infantil de Acarigua-Araure in Portuguesa, Venezuela, where she performed concerts with the students in connection with El Sistema.

Ms. Wright began her musical training at the age of five; she has studied with Eva Solar Kinderman and Dr. Robin Wood at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, where she received her Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance with Distinction. She has also completed her Associate Diplomas from the Royal Conservatory in Toronto (Performance) and the Victoria Conservatory of Music (Performance and Teaching). She received her Master's of Music in Collaborative Piano from the New England Conservatory in 2008.

Ms. Wright was the winner of the BC Provincials for Collaborative Piano, and later at the Victoria Conservatory Mozart & Haydn Festival she performed Mozart's Three Piano Concerto with orchestra. She has worked as Assistant Rehearsal Pianist for the Pacific Opera Victoria and Boston Opera Collaborative. She was keyboard pianist for the Vancouver Island Symphony and has also played for Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra solo recitals, the award-winning Wellesley College Choir, and the Libella Vocal Quartet. She was also the pianist in the Storms Quartet which was awarded an NEC Outreach Fellowship award to give performances in Greater Boston hospitals, schools, and health care facilities.

She has recently held faculty positions at the Ip Piano School and the Fourth Presbyterian Church music school in Boston. Ms. Wright was also the pianist for the Handel & Haydn Society Youth Women’s Chorus (2008/09 season) and worked on many of the Young Artist Outreach concerts with the company. She was previously on faculty at the Victoria Piano Summer School and taught this past summer 2009 at Camp Encore/Coda in Sweden, Maine.

Christina Wright - Collaborative Pianist