Department of Music Faculty and Staff

Dr. Christine Teng is a collaborative pianist from Rochester, NY. She most recently served as an Adjunct Faculty Collaborative Pianist at the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley, CO, and is currently on the faculty at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, KY.

Teng has performed extensively across the United States and in parts of Europe. She has been a collaborative piano fellow at SongFest (2026) in Greenville, SC, Passaggio (2026) in Salzburg, Austria, and Musiktheater Bavaria (2022) in Oberaudorf, Germany. Most recently, she was an artist at the 2026 Tampere Flute Festival in Finland, playing for international flutists in concert and competitions.

In addition to her performing activity, Teng is an active scholar whose research focuses on expanding collaborative piano repertoire for developing pianists. She has presented at the 2025 CollabFest in Denton, Texas, on Instrumental Duo Repertoire for Developing Pianists, and also at the 2025 IDRS Conference in Indianapolis, IN on her newly written piano reduction of Jean Françaix’s Concerto for Bassoon and 11 String Instruments.

Teng's mentors have included Margaret McDonald, Alexandra Nguyen, Jean Barr, Alan Smith, Alan Chow, and Peter Takács. She has also worked with notable artists such as Martin Katz, Anne Epperson, Margo Garrett, and Barbara Bonney. 

 

Teng holds a B.M. in Piano Performance from the Eastman School of Music along with a minor in French from the University of Rochester, and an M.M. in Keyboard Collaborative Arts from USC Thornton School of Music. She recently received a D.M.A. in Collaborative Piano at the University of Colorado Boulder.