Andrea Christie

Hailed as a "shining star" (La Scena Musicale), Andrea Christie is a Canadian-American pianist with a flair for late-romantic works and a passion for contemporary music. Equally at home as soloist and chamber musician, she is the pianist of The Parhelion Trio, praised by The Strad for their "effervescent" playing. She is also one half of the cross-Atlantic ensemble ÆGIRA Duo. Andrea has performed at Harpa Concert Hall in Reykjavík, the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen, and New York City venues including Carnegie Hall, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and National Sawdust.

Andrea’s 2025-26 highlights include the album release Dark Imagining on Bright Shiny Things with composer Jeff Myers and soprano Rachel Schutz; a series of NYC solo piano recitals featuring music by Whitney George; and collaborations with ChamberQUEER and Express Newark with concerts in Newark and Fort Lauderdale. Spring 2026 featured premieres of song cycles written for soprano Britt Hewitt and Andrea by Daniel Felsenfeld and Cashel Day-Lewis, and new works for The Parhelion Trio in partnership with the Long Island Composers Alliance. In August 2026, ÆGIRA Duo premiered their commissioning project Synesthesia and Ritual on a three-city tour of Denmark.

As an educator, Dr. Christie is Lecturer in Contemporary Performance Practice and Keyboard Pedagogy at Rutgers University, and Adjunct Professor of Keyboard Studies at Adelphi University. She holds DMA and MM degrees from Stony Brook University and a BMus from the University of British Columbia. Outside of music, Andrea tends to her plants, dances Argentine tango, and trains in traditional martial arts, where she can be found on the Budo Taijutsu mat on the weekend.

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