Biography

The Author

A college research scholarship at Royal Holloway enabled her to develop her interest in a hitherto little-explored area of piano performance which reflects some of the most important trends in the study of musical performance generally. These include the relationship between performance and analysis on the one hand, and anthropology and the human movement sciences on the other. Her forthcoming book Piano Performance: A mind/body approach is the outcome. She has given illustrated lectures on this subject at the Royal College of Music and at the ‘Year of the Piano’ lecture series hosted by Royal Holloway, University of London in association with Steinways UK Ltd. In 2009, with an award from Music & Letters, Cristine travelled to New Zealand where she presented a paper on her subject at the International Symposium on Performance Science.

Cristine is the founder and President of the Association L’Art du Piano in South West France and the newly-established London International Piano Symposium. (www.londoninternationalpianosymposium.co.uk)

Beyond the world of pianism, Cristine is acclaimed also by the academic food writer Alan Davidson in his Oxford Companion to Food (1995, OUP), as the definitive writer on the history of food in the English-speaking Caribbean. Her publications include Trade Winds (1986: UK, Absolute Press), and Life and Food in the Caribbean (1989: London, Weidenfeld & Nicholson).

Cristine MacKie trained as a pianist at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and is currently engaged as Performance Tutor (Piano) in the Department of Music, Royal Holloway, University of London. She has given many solo recitals in the UK and worldwide, and has broadcast on both radio and television, and given concerts and master classes, throughout the West Indies sponsored by the British Council.

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