Christine Croshaw
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Christine Croshaw is a British pianist, accompanist and chamber music player.
[edit] Overview
Christine Croshaw has specialised in the repertoire for the flute, recently partering players including Robert Winn, Michel Debost, Jacques Zoon. She has also recorded a number of albums with the respected American flautist Mark Thomas as well as a recent series of solo and chamber music CDs featuring Flute for Meridian Records, frequently heard on BBC Radio 3 and Classic FM. The latter featuring soloists including Stephen Stirling, Nicholas Bucknell and David Campbell.
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, Prunella Scales and author and raconteur Sir John Mortimer. These have been performed at festivals around the UK and abroad including Cheltenham, Chelsea, Rye, Chichester, Edinburgh, Lichfield, Lisbon and Bermuda.
[edit] Career
Croshaw studied initially with Harold Craxton through an award from composer Arthur Benjamin and was later awarded a full scholarship to study at the Royal Academy of Music, London, with Vivian Langrish and Gordon Greene. As a student she received many major awards and prizes including the Chappell Medal and the pianist's prize of the Elena Gerhardt Competition awarded by Gerald Moore.
On leaving the Royal Academy, Croshaw undertook many engagements as soloist and continued furthering her reputation as a chamber music player partnering such eminent musicians as Nathan Milstein, Alan Civil, Peter-Lukas Graf and Antontio Janigro. She has performed at all the major venues in London (Wigmore Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Purcell Room, Barbican) and throughout Europe, Australia and North America.
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.
