Andrea Christie

Upcoming events

June 8, 2026. 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. New York, NY.

Aug 14 — 16, 2026. Christie/Andersen Duo presents Synesthesia and Ritual. The duo joins forces with Danish and American composers to debut their project in a three city tour of Denmark. Forging a meaningful Danish-US collaborative relationship in a cultural exchange between Aarhus/Copenhagen and New York City, these concerts highlight five world premieres for violin and piano. Featuring music by Nirmali Fenn, Sunny Knable, Sophie Søs Meyer, Santiago Ruedo-García, Derek Weagle, and a work co-composed by Anne Sophie Andersen and Andrea Christie.

Recent events

May 24, 2026. 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. 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. 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. Fort Lauderdale, FL.

April 20, 2026. 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. Newark, NJ.

April 12, 2026. 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. Forest Hills, NY.

March 15, 2026. 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. Glen Rock, NJ.

About

Canadian-American pianist Andrea Christie is a versatile performing artist 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 NYC-based Parhelion Trio, a flute-clarinet-piano ensemble hailed by New York Concert Review as “excellent” and praised by The Strad Magazine for their “effervescent” playing. Recent appearances include performances at Harpa Concert Hall in Reykjavík, The Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen, and at New York City's leading performance venues including Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Symphony Space, and National Sawdust. Upcoming and recent collaborations include performances/projects with composer Jeff Myers and soprano Rachel Schutz; soprano Sharon Harms and Composers Now; composer Daniel Felsenfeld; Whitney George and The Curiosity Cabinet; ChamberQUEER; violinist Anne Sophie Andersen; composer-vocalist Lisa Bielawa; pianist Isabelle O’Connell; and members of Eighth Blackbird, Wet Ink, and The Knights ensembles. A native of Victoria, British Columbia, Andrea has been playing piano since the age of four. Her formal training began at the Victoria Conservatory of Music, where she made her solo orchestral debut at age 14, performing Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto.

Andrea Christie received her Doctor of Musical Arts and Master of Music degrees from SUNY Stony Brook and completed her Bachelor of Music at the University of British Columbia. Her principal teachers include Christina Dahl, Jane Coop, and Germán Diez. As a recipient of numerous scholarships and fellowships, Andrea has performed in residencies and summer festivals across North America and Europe including the Tanglewood Music Center, the Mozarteum, Academy Prag-Wien-Budapest, Avaloch Farm Institute, International Festival of Contemporary Music at Mannes, Icicle Creek Chamber Music Institute, Vancouver International Song Institute, Orford Academy, and Morningside Music Bridge.

As an educator, Dr. Christie serves as Lecturer of Contemporary Performance Practice and Keyboard Pedagogy at Rutgers University, and as Adjunct Professor of Keyboard Studies at Adelphi University. Dr. Christie has previously served on the piano faculties of Stony Brook University’s Pre-College Division, the Greenwich House Music School, and at the Herald Music School.

RECORDINGS

Parhelion Trio

10.07.2017 / Live at Oktaven Studio, NY