ABOUT
Dr. Christine Teng is a collaborative pianist and piano teacher based in Boulder, CO.
From Rochester, NY, Dr. Teng began her studies at the Eastman Community Music School and graduated from their diploma program as class representative. She received a Pre-Collegiate Diploma in Piano with Honors, studying with Patricia Hanson, as well as a Pre-Collegiate Diploma in Theory. She also received the Howard Hanson Certificate of Merit in 2016.
Dr. Teng's principal teachers and mentors include Jean Barr, Alan Smith, Alan Chow, and Peter Takács. She has also studied with Elvia Puccinelli, Andrew Harley, and Ann Schein. Christine has played in master classes for Martin Katz, Anne Epperson, Margo Garrett, Nelita True, Douglas Humpherys, Enrico Elisi, and many others. In the summers, she has attended festivals such as the Montecito International Music Festival, where she was a Junior Fellowship Scholarship recipient for three consecutive years, MusicFest Perugia, Miami Music Festival, and the New Orleans Piano Institute. In the summer of 2022, she was a collaborative piano fellow at Musiktheater Bavaria in Oberaudorf, Germany. She also served as a staff accompanist at the Eastman Community Music School from 2016-2021.
As an active piano teacher, Dr. Teng has taught piano at all levels and ages at Bach to Rock in Penfield, NY and Musikbox in Culver City, CA. She currently holds a private piano studio both in-person and online.
Dr. Teng holds a B.M. in Piano Performance from the Eastman School of Music along with a minor in French from the University of Rochester, and an M.M. in Keyboard Collaborative Arts from the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music where she was the recipient of the Gwendolyn Koldofsky Scholarship. She currently received a D.M.A. in Collaborative Piano at CU Boulder College of Music as a teaching assistant under the tutelage of Alexandra Nguyen and Margaret McDonald. Her research focuses on expanding the knowledge of collaborative piano repertoire for undergraduate pianists. Most recently, she has presented her new piano reduction of Jean Françaix’s Concerto for Bassoon and 11 String Instruments at the 2025 IDRS Conference.