Christine Croshaw
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Christine Croshaw is a British
Pianist and a Professor at Trinity College of Music
, London, UK
and was later awarded a full scholarship to study at the Royal Academy of Music
, London
, with Vivian Langrish and Gordon Green
. As a student she received many major awards and prizes culminating in the coveted Chappell Gold Medal
Croshaw has enjoyed a distinguished career as a solo pianist, chamber musician and accompanist. She has enjoyed partnering many eminent musicians in concerts at musical centres around the world, most notably Nathan Milstein
, Alan Civil
, Peter-Lukas Graf
, Jacques Zoon, Michel Debost, Robert Winn, Antontio Janigro and in numerous chamber music groups including the Nash Ensemble. She has performed regularly at all the major venues in London (Wigmore Hall
, Queen Elizabeth Hall
, Purcell Room
, Barbican
) and festivals throughout Europe and North America including Cheltenham, Chelsea, Rye, Chichester, Edinburgh, Lichfield, Lisbon, Taormina and Bermuda.
Croshaw's critically acclaimed series of CDs of music by Hummel, Weber, Czerny, Dussek and Moscheles with Meridian Records are frequently heard on BBC Radio 3 and Classic FM. Her latest CD for Meridian, of music by Camille Saint-Saens, awarded 5* in Musical Opinion magazine, was released in June 2011 and a disc of piano music by Gabriel Faure will be released in 2012.
In recent years, she has devised and performed in 'Words and Music' concerts featuring some of the UK's most distinguished actors including Edward Fox, Sir Derek Jacobi, Charles Dance, Robert Powell, Prunella Scales and author and raconteur Sir John Mortimer.
She has been Professor of Piano, Chamber Music and Accompaniment for numerous years at Trinity College of Music
, having previously taught at the Royal Academy of Music. She has also served on the teaching panels of the International Musician's Seminar (Prussia Cove
) and for numerous years at the Oxford Flute International Summer School.
Among numerous awards she has received are an Associateship of the Royal Academy of Music and Honorary Fellowship of Trinity College of Music; also numerous awards and prizes for piano solo, chamber music and accompaniment.
United Kingdom
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Pianist and a Professor at Trinity College of Music
Trinity College of Music
Trinity College of Music is one of the London music conservatories, based in Greenwich. It is part of Trinity Laban.The conservatoire is inheritor of elegant riverside buildings of the former Greenwich Hospital, designed in part by Sir Christopher Wren...
, London, UK
Overview
Christine Croshaw is a distinguished British concert pianist and and is a professor of piano, chamber music and accompaniment at Trinity College of Music, London.Career
Croshaw studied initially with Harold Craxton through an award from the composer Arthur BenjaminArthur Benjamin
Arthur Leslie Benjamin was an Australian composer, pianist, conductor and teacher. He is best known as the composer of Jamaican Rhumba, composed in 1938.-Biography:...
and was later awarded a full scholarship to study at the Royal Academy of Music
Royal Academy of Music
The Royal Academy of Music in London, England, is a conservatoire, Britain's oldest degree-granting music school and a constituent college of the University of London since 1999. The Academy was founded by Lord Burghersh in 1822 with the help and ideas of the French harpist and composer Nicolas...
, London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
, with Vivian Langrish and Gordon Green
Gordon Green
Gordon Green was an Australian rules footballer who played in the Victorian Football League .Green made his debut for the Carlton Football Club in round 5 of the 1911 season. He last played in the 1921 Grand Final between Carlton and Richmond before retiring.-External links:* at...
. As a student she received many major awards and prizes culminating in the coveted Chappell Gold Medal
Croshaw has enjoyed a distinguished career as a solo pianist, chamber musician and accompanist. She has enjoyed partnering many eminent musicians in concerts at musical centres around the world, most notably Nathan Milstein
Nathan Milstein
Nathan Mironovich Milstein was a Russian-born American virtuoso violinist.Widely considered one of the finest violinists of the 20th century, Milstein was known for his interpretations of Bach's solo violin works and for works from the Romantic period...
, Alan Civil
Alan Civil
Alan Civil OBE was a British horn player.Civil began to play the horn at a young age, and joined an army band while still in his teens...
, Peter-Lukas Graf
Peter-Lukas Graf
Peter-Lukas Graf is a flautist.He was born in Zürich in Switzerland. He was a pupil of André Jaunet, and later attended the Paris Conservatoire, where he won first prize with Marcel Moyse and Roger Cortot. Besides playing the flute both in orchestras and as a soloist, he is a conductor, and spent...
, Jacques Zoon, Michel Debost, Robert Winn, Antontio Janigro and in numerous chamber music groups including the Nash Ensemble. She has performed regularly at all the major venues in London (Wigmore Hall
Wigmore Hall
Wigmore Hall is a leading international recital venue that specialises in hosting performances of chamber music and is best known for classical recitals of piano, song and instrumental music. It is located at 36 Wigmore Street, London, UK and was built to provide London with a venue that was both...
, Queen Elizabeth Hall
Queen Elizabeth Hall
The Queen Elizabeth Hall is a music venue on the South Bank in London, United Kingdom that hosts daily classical, jazz, and avant-garde music and dance performances. The QEH forms part of Southbank Centre arts complex and stands alongside the Royal Festival Hall, which was built for the Festival...
, Purcell Room
Purcell Room
The Purcell Room is a concert and performance venue which forms part of the Southbank Centre, one of central London's leading cultural complexes. It is named after the 17th century English composer Henry Purcell and has 370 seats....
, Barbican
Barbican
A barbican, from medieval Latin barbecana, signifying the "outer fortification of a city or castle," with cognates in the Romance languages A barbican, from medieval Latin barbecana, signifying the "outer fortification of a city or castle," with cognates in the Romance languages A barbican, from...
) and festivals throughout Europe and North America including Cheltenham, Chelsea, Rye, Chichester, Edinburgh, Lichfield, Lisbon, Taormina and Bermuda.
Croshaw's critically acclaimed series of CDs of music by Hummel, Weber, Czerny, Dussek and Moscheles with Meridian Records are frequently heard on BBC Radio 3 and Classic FM. Her latest CD for Meridian, of music by Camille Saint-Saens, awarded 5* in Musical Opinion magazine, was released in June 2011 and a disc of piano music by Gabriel Faure will be released in 2012.
In recent years, she has devised and performed in 'Words and Music' concerts featuring some of the UK's most distinguished actors including Edward Fox, Sir Derek Jacobi, Charles Dance, Robert Powell, Prunella Scales and author and raconteur Sir John Mortimer.
She has been Professor of Piano, Chamber Music and Accompaniment for numerous years at Trinity College of Music
Trinity College of Music
Trinity College of Music is one of the London music conservatories, based in Greenwich. It is part of Trinity Laban.The conservatoire is inheritor of elegant riverside buildings of the former Greenwich Hospital, designed in part by Sir Christopher Wren...
, having previously taught at the Royal Academy of Music. She has also served on the teaching panels of the International Musician's Seminar (Prussia Cove
Prussia Cove
Prussia Cove , formerly called the King's Cove, is a small private estate on the coast of Mount's Bay and to the east of Cudden Point, west Cornwall, UK. Part of the area is designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest , a Geological Conservation Review site and is in an Area of Outstanding...
) and for numerous years at the Oxford Flute International Summer School.
Among numerous awards she has received are an Associateship of the Royal Academy of Music and Honorary Fellowship of Trinity College of Music; also numerous awards and prizes for piano solo, chamber music and accompaniment.
External links
- Meridian Records
- Official Website
- http://www.celebrityproductions.info/displayer_celebrities.php/66/_Christine_Croshaw
- http://www.tcm.ac.uk/RVE666b50f13f964eca849521cd6c0ad334,,.aspx