Christopher Harding, piano, has performed internationally and across the United States, generating enthusiasm and impressing audiences and critics alike with his substantive interpretations and pianistic mastery. He has given frequent solo, concerto and chamber music performances in venues as far flung as the Kennedy Center and Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., Suntory Hall in Tokyo and the National Theater Concert Hall in Taipei, the Jack Singer Concert Hall in Calgary, and halls and festival appearances in Newfoundland and Israel. Mr. Harding appeared as soloist with prestigious orchestras, among which, the National Symphony Orchestra, Saint Louis Symphony, and the Tokyo City Philharmonic. He worked with such conductors as Taijiro Iimori, Gisele Ben-Dor, Fabio Machetti, Randall Craig Fleisher, John DeMain, Ron Spiegelman, Daniel Alcott and Darryl One, among others. In addition to his teaching of undergraduate and graduate piano performance and chamber music at the University of Michigan, Mr. Harding also serves on the faculty of the Indiana University Summer Piano Academy, and is a frequent guest artist and teacher at the MasterWorks Festival in Winona Lake, IN. His collegiate studies were with Menahem Pressler and Nelita True. He is the recipient of numerous awards, and in 1999 was awarded the special "Mozart Prize" at the Cleveland International Piano Competition, given for the best performance of a composition by Mozart. His current recording projects include the Brahms sonatas for piano and violin with Stephen Boe, and a DVD exploring the musical genesis of Robert Schumann's Kreisleriana.