Andrea Christie

“…shining star on this album … contributing to the album’s most engaging moments with precise and technical playing.”

— La Scena Musicale (June 2026) - 'Dark Imagining' Album Review

Upcoming events

October 28, 2026 | Oslo, Norway. New Music for Strings Festival 10th Anniversary Concert: Oslo. In collaboration with NyMusikk Komponistgruppen. Featuring violinists Eugene Drucker and Anne Sophie Andersen, mezzo-soprano Susannah Woodruff, and pianist Andrea Christie @Sentralen Oslo

October 31, 2026 | Aarhus, Denmark New Music for Strings Festival 10th Anniversary Concert: Aarhus. Performing works with violinist Eugene Drucker and ÆGIRA Duo. @Åbyhøj Church Aarhus

Recent events

Aug 14 — 16, 2026 | Aarhus-Odense-Copenhagen, Denmark. ÆGIRA Duo presents Synesthesia and Ritual. The duo—Anne Sophie Andersen, violin and Andrea Christie, piano—joins forces with Danish and American composers to debut their project in a three city tour of Denmark. RSVP/Tickets

June 8, 2026. | New York, NY. 7pm, Monday. Album Launch Concert: Dark Imagining. New York composer Jeff Myers’ third album, Dark Imagining weaves together vocal works that traverse beauty, darkness, and transformation. Featuring Rachel Schutz (soprano), Andrea Christie (piano) and Chris Gross (cello). To be released by Bright Shiny Things record label on June 5th. RSVP/Tickets here. Pre-order Album here. @OSA Church NYC.

May 24, 2026 | Brooklyn, NY. Sunday, 5pm. Coffey Street Studio: An Evening of New Music Works. Performed by Britt Hewitt (soprano), Andrea Christie (piano), Liam Cummins (piano), and Lila Holyoke (cello). Featuring works by Cashel Day-Lewis, Daniel Felsenfeld and Liam Cummins, including two song cycle world premieres with text by T.S. Eliot. RSVP/Tickets here @Coffey Street Studio. Brooklyn, NY.

May 7 — 15, 2026 | New York, NY. The Curiosity Cabinet presents THE EXTINCTION SERIES: solo piano edition. Featuring music by Whitney George, pianist Andrea Christie presents a series of five solo recitals in five New York City concert venues. With guest dancer and choreographer, Jordan Morley on May 8th and 11th. The series is a collection of miniatures, each movement a musical obituary to an extinct animal, and a statement by the creator, who will never complete the series in her lifetime. Free admission.

April 25, 2026 | Fort Lauderdale, FL. 7:30pm, Saturday. GENVAS presents: ChamberQueer. ChamberQUEER headlines the first evening of the GENVAS' Pride in Progress 2026 festival with a program that honors the vital contributions of queer women, non-binary and trans artists and organizers across the history of feminist activism. Featuring Danielle Buonaiuto (voice), Jules Biber (cello) and Andrea Christie (piano). RSVP/Tickets here. @Our Fund Foundation Hall ArtServe

April 20, 2026 | Newark, NJ . 6pm, Monday. Express Newark presents: ChamberQUEER in the Drawing Room. A Radical Salon Experience. Join ChamberQUEER for a one-night-only transformation of Express Newark’s Drawing Room into a vibrant, inclusive salon space for the 21st century. Highlighting works by Clara Schumann, Margaret Bonds, Amy Beach, Eve Beglarian, Sarah Kirkland Snider, Annika Socolofsky, Jessie Montgomery, and more. Featuring Danielle Buonaiuto (voice), Theo Espy (violin), Jules Biber (cello) and Andrea Christie (piano). RSVP/event link. @Express Newark (Rutgers-Newark)

April 12, 2026 | Forest Hills, NY. 3pm, Sunday. Long Island Composers Alliance presents The Parhelion Trio in Concert. Featuring world premieres of seven new works for flute, clarinet and piano by Matthew Baier, Robert Knable, Sunny Knable, George Cork Maul, Katherine Neville, Dana Dimitri Richardson, and Edward Smaldone. @Church-in-the-Gardens

March 15, 2026 | Glen Rock, NJ. 3pm, Sunday. Culture Close to Home Concert Series presents The Parhelion Trio. A recital of contemporary classical music featuring works written for the trio, including a world premiere by Nirmali Fenn and compositions by Lisa Bielawa, Daniel Felsenfeld, Seong Ae Kim, Sunny Knable, and Tonia Ko. @All Saints Episcopal Church

About

Hailed as a "shining star" (La Scena Musicale), Canadian-American pianist Andrea Christie brings a flair for late-Romantic works and a passion for contemporary music to her work as soloist and chamber musician. She is the pianist of The Parhelion Trio, praised by The Strad for their "effervescent" playing, and one half of the cross-Atlantic ÆGIRA Duo with violinist Anne Sophie Andersen, lauded for their “acrobatic skills…balancing with precision as if on a deadly knife edge" (Sceneblog.dk). 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.

Recent highlights include the album release Dark Imagining (June 2026) on Bright Shiny Things with composer Jeff Myers and soprano Rachel Schutz, and the premiere of ÆGIRA Duo's commissioning project Synesthesia and Ritual on a three-city tour of Denmark in August 2026. Her 2026–27 season includes performances in Norway and Denmark with violinist Eugene Drucker (Emerson String Quartet), mezzo-soprano Susannah Woodruff, and ÆGIRA Duo in collaboration with New Music for Strings; residencies with [Switch~ Ensemble] at Overdrive Festival and Brown University, and an album recording with The Parhelion Trio.

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, and maintains a private studio in Queens, New York. She holds DMA and MM degrees from Stony Brook University and a BMus degree 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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RECORDINGS

Parhelion Trio

10.07.2017 / Live at Oktaven Studio, NY