BACKGROUND

Background

Cristine MacKie, pianist and musicologist taught piano performance; coached chamber groups at Royal Holloway, University of London for thirty years; designed courses at Morley College, London, to prepare latecomers- in all aspects of music for the world of performance; given recitals and broadcast on both radio and television in the UK, Austria and beyond, as well as giving concerts and master classes throughout the West Indies sponsored by the British Council.

She has given illustrated lectures in 2009 at the Royal College of Music, and the ‘Year of the Piano’ lecture series hosted by Royal Holloway, University of London in association with Steinway & Sons, UK Ltd. She founded also the Association ‘L’Art du Piano’ in Southwest France, and in 2013 founded and directs the London International Piano Symposium, which is hosted every two to three years at the Royal College of Music, and the Royal Academy of Music; its objective  being to provide a an educational platform with the aim of expanding the frontiers of knowledge by encouraging an interdisciplinary approach to piano performance at the interface between scientific research, and skilled artistry (For details of future events go to the publication and events page).

 As a result of this approach, two books have been published, compiled, and edited by Cristine: New Thoughts on Piano Performance: Research at the Interface Between Science and the Art of Piano Performance (2021), 2nd ed. www.londoninternationalpianosymposium.co.uk; and Rethinking Piano Performance: The Embodied Mind (2022), 2nd ed. both available at www.londoninternationalpianosymposium.co.uk. Cristine has contributed also numerous theoretical papers on these topics, which are published in the Proceedings of the International Symposium on Performance Science between 2007-2023 (see publications page).