Pianist Christine Doré has received international acclaim as a chamber musician with wide interpretative capabilities. She enjoys an active and varied career as a chamber musician, accompanist, soloist and teacher.
After receiving her early musical training in England, Ms. Doré continued her piano studies in Rhode Island, Long Island, Boston and New York City. She holds a BM with honors from the New England Conservatory and earned her MM from the Mannes College of Music, where she attended on a full merit scholarship.
Ms. Doré made her New York debut in 1996 as a collaborative pianist at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall. Her travels as a chamber musician have taken her to Connecticut, Florida, Iowa, Massachusetts, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Tennessee; as well as Canada, the Czech Republic and Slovenia. Ms. Doré’s chamber music performances have been aired on radio stations WNYC, WSHU and KSUI. Ms. Doré is a founding member of the chamber music ensemble Chamberosity, which has commissioned, premiered and recorded two exciting trios for violin, horn and piano: one by Eric Ewazen; the other by Peter Winkler. The ensemble’s recordings are available through iTunes, cdbaby and Amazon, as well as at www.chamberosity.org.
Ms. Doré has appeared as a soloist with the Northport Symphony, the Camerata Orchestra of NY, the Stony Brook Summer Music Festival Orchestra, the Mannes College Orchestra, the Long Island Philharmonic and the Huntington Community Band. She ran the Music At Greenlawn concert series for the decade of its highly successful existence, ending in 2003. Her TV and film credits include Amazon Prime’s Mozart in the Jungle, ABC’s Loving and the documentary Death in the Wilderness.
In 2019 Ms. Doré joined the adjunct faculty of Suffolk Community College as a Professor of Music. She was a member of the music faculty of LIU Post for 14 years, as both Professor of Instrumental Coaching and Staff Accompanist; and was a faculty member of the LIU Post Chamber Music Festival for many years. Ms. Doré was a member of the faculty of the highly regarded Stony Brook Summer Music Festival during its tenure. For several years she was a member of the chamber music faculty of the pre-college music program at SUNY Stony Brook. Ms. Doré is an adjudicator for the National Guild of Piano Teachers, and is regularly invited to judge piano competitions. She has been the accompanist for the Huntington Choral Society since 1994, and is in high demand as a choral accompanist. Ms. Doré believes in the highest standards of musical education and is devoted to her many students, both past and present.