Christina
Maria Koti

A Greek pianist in Paris

Greek pianist Christina Maria Koti has completed an Advanced Diploma in French Mélodie at the École Normale de Musique de Paris, where she studied with Pascal Rogé and François Le Roux. She was an Artist-in-Residence at the Fondation Hellénique in Paris from 2024 to 2025, and holds a Master of Music in Piano Performance from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music & Dance in London.

Particularly devoted to the art of song, Christina Maria has developed a special affinity for French mélodie and the Lied repertoire. She was selected as a collaborative pianist for the 2023–2024 Wigmore Hall French Song Exchange Programme with Felicity Lott and François Le Roux, and as an Emerging Artist for the Art of Song programme at the Toronto Summer Music Festival in 2024. She was awarded the Founders Prize in Piano Accompaniment in 2022 and the Sam Hutchins Piano Prize at the Oxenfoord Summer School in 2026, where she worked with Malcolm Martineau.

In partnership with baritone Jared Andrew Michaud, Christina Maria has received numerous first prizes in international competitions and has performed at major venues across Europe and North America. Their performances have been presented at Wigmore Hall, the DiMenna Center for Classical Music, the Petit Palais, Salle Cortot, St James’s Piccadilly, Yale University and the B & M Theocharakis Foundation for the Fine Arts and Music. Most recently, the duo was selected by Vrienden van het Lied to perform throughout the Netherlands.

Christina Maria has participated in leading academies and festivals, including the Heidelberger Frühling Liedzentrum Academy, the Schubertiada International Lied Duo Festival, Lied Festival Zeist, the London Song Festival, the Maastricht Art of Song Festival and the Gnessin Summer Festival.

As a solo pianist, she has participated in and received awards at international festivals and competitions, including the Gnessin Academy Summer Festival, the Concorso Internazionale Pianistico Città di Villafranca di Verona, the Glasgow Music Festival and the Dinu Lipatti International Piano Competition. She also holds a Piano Diploma with Distinction from the Dodecanesian Conservatory in Greece.