Dr. Christine Teng is a collaborative pianist from Rochester, NY. Her principal teachers have included Alexandra Nguyen, Margaret McDonald, Alan Chow, Alan Smith, Jean Barr, Peter Takács, and Ann Schein. She has attended festivals such as the Montecito International Music Festival, MusicFest Perugia, Miami Music Festival, and the New Orleans Piano Institute. In 2022, she was a collaborative piano fellow at Musiktheater Bavaria in Oberaudorf, Germany, and served as a staff accompanist at the Eastman Community Music School from 2016–2021.
Dr. Teng recently earned her D.M.A. in Collaborative Piano from the University of Colorado Boulder in May 2025 and also holds degrees from the University of Southern California and the Eastman School of Music. Her research focuses on expanding awareness of collaborative piano repertoire for undergraduate pianists, and she recently completed a new piano reduction of Jean Françaix’s Concerto for Bassoon and 11 String Instruments.