ABOUT

From Rochester, NY, Dr. Christine Teng is a collaborative pianist and piano teacher based in Boulder, CO.

 

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, she 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.

 

For research, Dr. Teng focuses on expanding the knowledge of collaborative piano repertoire for undergraduate pianists. She will be presenting this topic at the 2025 CollabFest in Denton, TX. Most recently, she presented her newly written piano reduction of Jean Françaix’s Concerto for Bassoon and 11 String Instruments at the 2025 IDRS Conference.

 

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 recently 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.

 

Dr. Teng is currently a staff pianist at the University of Northern Colorado.