Biography

Christina Faye is an accomplished collaborative pianist now making her home in Toronto Ontario. Originally from Thunder Bay Ontario, Christina discovered her love for the collaborative arts at age of nine when she began playing for a local children's chorus. Since then, she has worked with a vast number of student and professional instrumentalists, singers, orchestras, chamber groups and theatre and opera productions, as well as being an active teacher and solo performer. In her High School years, Christina completed the ARCT level Performance Certificate from Conservatory Canada while also studying piano pedagogy, theory, violin and pipe organ. She won several awards for piano and pipe organ performance excellence as well as commendations for theory and harmony exams from the Western Conservatory and Conservatory Canada.

Christina received a Bachelor of Music with Distinction, in Solo Piano Performance from Brandon University in 2007 under heavy scholarship. She is a very recent graduate of the Eastman School of Music with an MM in Piano Accompanying and Chamber Music (’09), for which she received Eastman entrance scholarships and a graduate award, a Manitoba Student Bursary Grant and a mention of merit from the Canadian Arts Council Grant committee. Christina has held collaborative pianist positions at several major summer music programs, including Opera Nuova in Edmonton AB, and the Rocky Mountain Summer Conservatory in Colorado. She has experience and interests in a wide range of musical styles and is especially interested in contemporary music.