Upcoming events
February 22, 2026. 3pm, Sunday. Long Island Composers Alliance presents The Parhelion Trio in Concert. Featuring world premieres of seven new works for flute, clarinet and piano by Matthew Baker, Robert Knable, Sunny Knable, George Cork Maul, Katherine Neville and Edward Smaldone. @Church-in-the-Gardens. Forest Hills, NY.
March 15, 2026. 3pm, Sunday. Culture Close to Home Concert Series presents The Parhelion Trio. A recital of contemporary classical music for flute, piano and clarinet, featuring a world premiere by Nirmali Fenn. @All Saints Episcopal Church. Glen Rock, NJ.
Recent events
December 15 & 18. Juilliard Extension Division. Student composition reading workshops. Private events.
December 16, 2026. Luna Lab and Curiosity Cabinet composition reading workshop. Private event.
December 9, 2026. NYU Wind Symphony: Abendlieder, alongside Suite Française. Guest keyboardist (piano/celesta). Event link. @Iris Cantor Theatre, New York, NY.
August 19, 2025. 7:30pm, Tuesday. Ensemble Abstraktion in Concert. The Danish chamber group Ensemble Abstraktion joins forces with pianist Andrea Christie and violinist, Anne Sophie Andersen, performing works by Gérard Grisey, Morton Feldman, Wolfgang Rihm, Daniel Weymouth, and Robert Baker. @Langenæs Kirke. Aarhus, Denmark.
August 17, 2025. Duo Recital with violinist Anne Sophie Andersen. Odense, Denmark.
June 17 - 18, 2025. Premiere of No Man’s Land, an opera by Whitney George, with The Curiosity Cabinet. @The Space at Irondale. Brooklyn, NY.
April 18, 2025. Friday. New Music at Adelphi XX presents The Parhelion Trio in Recital. Featuring music by Adelphi University composition faculty. @Adelphi University Performing Arts Center. Garden City, NY.
February 23, 2025. 7:00pm, Sunday. Ithaca College Faculty Recital by Rachel Schutz (soprano) and pianist, Andrea Christie. Featuring a world premiere of a song cycle for soprano and piano by composer Jeff Myers. @Ithaca College. Ithaca, NY
January 29, 2025. 7:30pm, Wednesday. Composers Now 2025 Festival: Opening Event. Hosted by Tania León. Highlights include The Visionary Awards, honoring George Lewis and Paola Prestini, and live performances. Featuring The Parhelion Trio and soprano Sharon Harms, playing a world premiere by Sophia Dou, commissioned by Composers Now. @National Sawdust. Brooklyn, NY
November 23, 2024. 6:00pm, Saturday. Juilliard Faculty Recital, Daniel Felsenfeld. Featuring sopranos Britt Hewitt and Tara Khozein, pianist Andrea Christie, and The Parhelion Trio. @The Juilliard School, Paul Hall. New York, NY
November 4, 2024. 7:00pm, Monday. ChamberQUEER and Luna Composition Lab presents: The Nebula Project Volume 1, Little Gems. At this inaugural event, a ChamberQUEER-curated chamber ensemble of performers will perform an evening of works by Luna Lab alumni. Featuring a roster of ChamberQUEER-curated artists, including performances by soprano MaKayla McDonald, violinist Giancarlo Latta, and pianists Isabelle O’Connell and Andrea Christie. @The DiMenna Center, Cary Hall. New York, NY.
About
Canadian-American pianist Andrea Christie is a versatile performing artist with a flair for late-romantic works and a passion for contemporary music. Equally at home as soloist and chamber musician, she is the pianist of the NYC-based Parhelion Trio, a flute-clarinet-piano ensemble hailed by New York Concert Review as “excellent” and praised by The Strad Magazine for their “effervescent” playing. Recent appearances include performances at Harpa Concert Hall in Reykjavík, The Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen, and at New York City's leading performance venues including Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Symphony Space, and National Sawdust. Upcoming and recent collaborations include performances/projects with composer Jeff Myers and soprano Rachel Schutz; soprano Sharon Harms and Composers Now; composer Daniel Felsenfeld; Whitney George and The Curiosity Cabinet; ChamberQUEER; violinist Anne Sophie Andersen; composer-vocalist Lisa Bielawa; pianist Isabelle O’Connell; and members of Eighth Blackbird, Wet Ink, and The Knights ensembles. A native of Victoria, British Columbia, Andrea has been playing piano since the age of four. Her formal training began at the Victoria Conservatory of Music, where she made her solo orchestral debut at age 14, performing Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto.
Andrea Christie received her Doctor of Musical Arts and Master of Music degrees from SUNY Stony Brook and completed her Bachelor of Music at the University of British Columbia. Her principal teachers include Christina Dahl, Jane Coop, and Germán Diez. As a recipient of numerous scholarships and fellowships, Andrea has performed in residencies and summer festivals across North America and Europe including the Tanglewood Music Center, the Mozarteum, Academy Prag-Wien-Budapest, Avaloch Farm Institute, International Festival of Contemporary Music at Mannes, Icicle Creek Chamber Music Institute, Vancouver International Song Institute, Orford Academy, and Morningside Music Bridge.
As an educator, Dr. Christie serves as Lecturer of Contemporary Performance Practice and Keyboard Pedagogy at Rutgers University, and as Adjunct Professor of Keyboard Studies at Adelphi University. Dr. Christie has previously served on the piano faculties of Stony Brook University’s Pre-College Division, the Greenwich House Music School, and at the Herald Music School.
RECORDINGS
Parhelion Trio
10.07.2017 / Live at Oktaven Studio, NY
