Christine Anderson

Christine Anderson was born in Los Angeles, CA, on March 25, 1983. She heard music playing in her head constantly, and after discovering the piano at age nine, barely a year passed before she was soloing with her first symphony.

Training
Schooled at home like Mozart, Mendelssohn, and Poulenc, Anderson was under strict orders not to listen to the radio or watch television, and instead spent nearly every waking hour mastering the piano. She began competing in piano competitions across the United States and won every single one of them.

"Her exceptional technical execution, tremendous degree of energy, and sheer speed at the keyboard belied her young age, leading internationally acclaimed pianist Wladimir Jan Kohanski to label her a child prodigy and to encourage her exploration of Bach. She subsequently entered and won six Bach competition recognitions including two consecutive Bach Festival gold medals for her animated performances of J.S. Bach's Preludes and Fugues."

Anderson attended Scripps College and received her B.A. in Music, with an emphasis on classical piano performance, under the tutelage of Dr. Hao Huang, MM, DMA, of Harvard University, the Juilliard School and the State University of New York at Stony Brook. She earned an additional Concentration in Composition under Dr. Bill Alves, DMA, resident composer at Harvey Mudd College School of Engineering.

Launching her career
The following summer, with the help of veteran talent buyer Brian Lewis, Anderson recorded Live Summer Session, a live home-recorded album that rocketed the songstress from obscurity to indie stardom virtually overnight after she posted four of the 17 tracks on MySpace. Anderson's collaborators include Iggy Pop guitarist Whitey Kirst, SlipKnot bassist Paul Grey, jazz pianist Gregg Karukas, and John Ziegler of Pigmy Love Circus.

Stylistically, Anderson has been called the "missing link between Tori Amos and Martha Argerich", but her trademark ability of composing songs impromptu has led to critics comparing her with jazz players.

Anderson has also graced the cover of several music magazines including Rockdogz Magazine's "Top 40 Emerging Artists of 2006" issue, Artist Interviews, and Mouvement Nouveau.

She has been featured in MuchMusic and an episode of Canada's "Ed The Sock" show. She has also performed a live concert on MTV, and recently signed a contract to compose music for the theme songs and sound tracks of MTV shows, including "My Super Sweet 16". She is also in rotation on a growing number of radio stations across the US, including Clear Channel affiliates. She was a special guest on Live On Air With Darren Andrews and Baltimore's Below The Belt Show.

She was a special guest on the Sci-Fi Channel's "Dream Team" where she discussed the dreams of creative artists, and she was featured on LA Nightlife during her live piano-vocal performance at Glamourcon.

She made a cameo appearance as herself in Mark Hammil's 2004 comedy, Comic Book: The Movie.

She has also modeled for Von Dutch, Adam Saaks, and Teenage Millionaire, and she posed as Roller Girl for the 2004 West Coast Choppers calendar.

Discography
*Pianist Envy, EP (2004)
*Live Summer Session, LP (2005)

Filmography
*[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1547018/filmoyear Comic Book: The Movie (2004)]

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