British pianist, chamber music player, performance coach and teacher, Christine Croshaw turned 80 this year

For over thirty years pianist Christine Croshaw has created and performed in anthology programmes for actress and actor with Clive Conway playing the flute and producing the performances. The actors are some of our country's most celebrated names and the subjects including Dickens, Jane Austen, Rudyard Kipling, and Debussy and many more. 

Croshaw, who turned 80 in October of this year has enjoyed a extensive and esteemed career as a concert pianist and teacher. Her concert engagements have taken her to most major venues around the UK, including many appearances at the Wigmore Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall and Purcell Room. She has performed across the continent in France, Germany, Austria, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Malta, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Poland and Switzerland, and also in North America. festival appearances include Cheltenham, Lichfield, Kensington and Chelsea, Ludlow, Chichester, Lisbon, Bermuda, and Taormina. Musical Opinion, the Proms edition in 2011 described her as “A most gifted pianist.”

"Her nuanced, revelatory pianism seems almost outside of time in its understated eloquence, and in a way the chosen repertoire is perfectly suited. Her artless poetry at the keyboard is evident in Saint-Saëns' retro, and magical, Piano Suite, for example. Her athletic legerdemain in Hummel's Rondo Brillant in B minor seems undiminished in the hugely strenuous Etude en forme de Valse in D flat or the Allegro Appassionato op.70 of her Saint-Saëns recital.” - Musicweb International, January 2012

For nearly 50 years, she taught at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music & Dance, and she was described by Jaques Samuels Pianos as ‘one of the best kept secrets. Although she has retired, Croshaw still gives private lessons. After gaining a distinction in her profession, Croshaw was elected as an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music and an Honorary fellow of Trinity College of Music. In 2014 Christine was honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Award by 'Music Teacher' magazine, sponsored by Rhinegold Publishing and Classic FM, for her 'seminal contribution to music education' at a ceremony held at London's Barbican Centre.

Here at Clive Conway Productions, we would like to pay tribute to Christine in celebrating her 80th birthday.