Christopher White graduated from the Royal Academy of Music in 2007 with first-class honours, as well as awards for academic and practical music making. He is in his first year of Masters study at the Academy, for which he is grateful to the Musicians Benevolent Fund and the Arts and Humanities Research Council for financial support. He studies piano with Hamish Milne and piano accompaniment with Michael Dussek.

Christopher has studied Chopin with the late Prof. Alexander Satz, Messiaen with Pierre-Laurent Aimard and Busoni with Ronald Stevenson. He has performed as a chamber musician in the Wigmore, Fairfield and Queen Elizabeth Halls, and will contribute to the Ronald Stevenson 80th birthday celebrations at St. John’s, Smith Square. Other solo performances have taken him to Manchester, Aberdeen, Vienna and New Zealand, the latter for a Chopin recital on a piano donated to the city of Auckland by Paderewski.

Christopher performed in the inaugural concert of the Philharmonia Britannica in June 2007, as soloist in Mozart’s Piano Concerto in G, K.453. He will perform this work with the Buckinghamshire Chamber Orchestra next year, as well as Beethoven’s second concerto with the orchestra of Rugby School. In summer 2003 he performed Rachmaninov’s second concerto with the English Schools Orchestra in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane.

As a chamber musician, Christopher has twice visited the International Musicians’ Seminar in Prussia Cove, Cornwall, studying trio and cello-piano duo repertoire with Valeria Szervansky. The Marcel Trio, founded in 2005, has also received coaching from members of the Chillingirian Quartet, the Gould Trio and Joseph Seiger. He was an official accompanist at the inaugural Manchester International Competition for Young Pianists. He has worked extensively for singers on lieder and song recitals as well as opera scenes by Menotti, Janacek, Strauss and Britten.
 
In addition to piano studies, Christopher is an organist and conductor. As a writer on music he has contributed to the RAM Club and Piano Professional magazines. His Masters dissertation will focus on the music of Mahler, a transcription of whose Tenth Symphony Christopher is currently completing.