Top prize winner at the Royal Academy of Music where he studied with Sidney Harrison, Gordon Green and Frederick Jackson. Scholarships took him to Rome to study with Guido Agosti and Paris with Vlado Perlemuter. Working together with Lydia Stix Agosti in Siena in 1978 he met the distinguished actress Ileana Ghione whom he married and they built and ran a 500-seat theatre together in Rome that became a centre of cultural excellence. Productions of stage plays by renowned directors, including Beckett, followed as did the promotion of great musicians denied a space in Italy and young musicians at the beginning of illustrious careers. In recognition of their activity his wife was knighted by the President of Italy and he was made an Associate of the Royal Academy, his alma mater in London.
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Christopher has written performance reviews for many Keyboard Trust artists including:
Can Arisoy
Leonora Armellini
Mariam Batsashvili
Corbin Beisner
Vanessa Benelli Mosell
Evelyne Berezovsky
Jamie Bergin
Giovanni Bertolazzi
Victor Braojos
Adrian Brendle
Pontus Carron
Elia Cecino
Alberto Chines
Gala Chistiakova
Konstantinos Destounis
Petar Dimov
Damir Durmanovic
Anna Federova
Jonathan Ferrucci
Mei Yi Foo
Nicholas Freestone
George X. Fu
Alexander Gadjiev
Andre Gallo
Evgeny Genchev
Jayson Gillham
Caterina Grewe
Sasha Grynyuk
Tyler Hay
Florian Heinisch
Leslie Howard
Emanuil Ivanov
Martin Ivanov
Luke Jones
Thomas Kelly
Maxim Kinasov
Dinara Klinton
Ilya Kondratiev
Jianing Kong
Roman Kosyakov
Ivelina Krasteva
Ivan Krpan
Umberto Jacopo Laureti
Edward Leung
Luca Lione
Dario Llanos Javierre
Pedro Lopez Salas
Nicola Losito
Nikita Lukinov
Ke Ma
Marcos Madrigal
Victor Maslov
Filip Michalak
Jiyeong (Chloe) Mun
Vitaly Pisarenko
Emanuel Rimoldi
Mihai Ritivoiu
Jean Rondeau
Pablo Rossi
Tomoki Sakata
Salvador Sanchez
Cristian Sandrin
Drew Steanson
Iyad Sughayer
Alessandro Taverna
Simone Tavoni
George Todica
Hin-Yat Tsang
Alexander Ullman
Mark Viner
Mark Viner
Bocheng Wang
Chiyan Wong
Yuanfan Yang
Hao Zi Yoh
Nicholas Young