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Former child progidy Christine Anderson is a musical savant, who sat down to a piano for the first time at age nine and discovered she "somehow just knew how to play it." Anderson soloed with her first US symphony at age 11, and began competing in and winning solo artist and duo piano competitions across the United States, earning the nickname "Little Miss Mozart" from adoring fans and press. Now 22, Anderson is one of the top independent music artists in the United States. Her critically acclaimed, live, home-recorded LP, Live Summer Session 2005, rocketed the songstress from obscurity to indie stardom virtually overnight after she uploaded four of the 17 tracks to the internet megaportal MySpace, and it has since been hailed by critics as one of the most powerful and highly respected creative performances of the indie music year. With a red hot street buzz and the credibility that comes with writing all her own music, live and impromptu, Anderson is amassing a passionate cult following with her soulful voice, heartbreaking songwriting, and world class piano playing. The Los Angeles Music Award winner recently inked deals with MTV and IODA, and production is currently underway on her official debut album, slated for independent release with worldwide distribution in 2007.

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Educated at home like Amadeus Mozart, Anton Bruckner, Felix Mendelssohn, and Francis Poulenc, Anderson discovered the piano at age nine, and dedicated most of her waking hours to the mastery of her music. By age eleven, she had soloed with her first symphony, the Chamber Music Society of Oregon's Portland Sinfonietta. With music constantly playing in her head, Anderson was a natural composer, and only months into her musical studies, she submitted her own Sonatina for solo piano to the Music Association's Young Composers Project, and won first place. A long string of solo compositions quickly followed, among them sonatas, nocturnes, polonaises, and a concertino, as well as a chamber symphony, a suite of jazz duets, and myriad works for string ensemble.

Anderson's passion for the masterworks was also fostered with fervor as she built up an extensive repertoire of Mozart, Beethoven, and Chopin, and began competing in and winning solo artist and duo piano competitions across the Pacific Northwest. Her exceptional technical execution, tremendous degree of energy, and sheer speed at the keyboard belied her young age, leading internationally acclaimed pianist Wladimir Jan Kohanski to label her a child prodigy and to encourage her exploration of Bach. She subsequently entered and won six Bach competition recognitions including two consecutive Bach Festival gold medals for her animated performances of J.S. Bach's Preludes and Fugues.

Anderson attended Scripps College for Women on full scholarship, and received her Bachelor of Arts in Music, with an emphasis on classical piano performance, under the tutelage of Dr. Hao Huang, MM, DMA, of Harvard University, the Juilliard School and the State University of New York at Stony Brook. She earned an additional Concentration in Composition under Dr. Bill Alves, DMA, resident composer at Harvey Mudd School of Engineering.


Welcome To Hollywood!

After graduation, it didn't take long for the budding artist to set her sights on Hollywood. She wrote a five song EP, Pianist Envy, that she recorded with Grammy nominees Derek Nakamoto and Craig Burbidge in 2004. With Pianist Envy under her belt, she won the Los Angeles Music Award for Composer of the Year by a unanimous vote, garnered special features on MTV and MuchMusic, and placed her song "Times Of Your Life" in the soundtrack for the New Centurian film Officer Down – on her own, without management, PR, or a record label.

With a growing catalogue of original material, an extensive repertoire of classical masterpieces, and a keen ability to compose hilarious songs about random people in the audience, right on the spot, Anderson began gigging steadily around Los Angeles, playing to diverse crowds of enraptured music lovers, professional musicians, and curious rock stars, who had never seen anything like her. She quickly earned a reputation for giving sensational live performances, delighting her audiences with surprise impromptu songwriting, and passionately "serving up her soul on a plate of piano."

When Anderson landed a gig opening for John Waite at the Malibu Inn, veteran talent buyer Brian Lewis was so impressed by her performance that he approached her about making a record. It was his idea of capturing her emotionally charged live vibe that led to the making of Live Summer Session 2005. Recorded in Lewis' North Hollywood living room, LIVE, in a single gut wrenching take, Anderson's inspired breakthrough album keeps the focus squarely on her newly discovered voice as she takes you on a poignant emotional journey from despair to redemption.

From the bittersweet chorus of "Hollywood Trainwreck" to the saucy swagger of "Bobby Hunter" and beyond, Christine Anderson gives us a taste of a fresh, powerful, and undeniably compelling breed of alternative pop brimming with melodious hooks, sing along choruses, and above all, vibe.

"Wonderfully inventive and startlingly evocative, Anderson delivers each line of poetry, each piano embellishment with an exquisite level of artistry, turning out music that is more than catchy and fun, but magical, masterful and extraordinary." (Artist Interviews Magazine)



What Else The Critics Are Saying:

"Stunning live debut."
-LOS ANGELES TIMES

"Creative brilliance!"
-MOUVEMENT NOUVEAU

"Top Emerging Artist of 2006"
-ROCKDOGZ MAGAZINE

"Hot New Artist to Watch!"
-MUSIC CONNECTION

"Home recorded masterpiece"
-LOS ANGELES MUSIC AWARDS

"Uplifting, powerful, and damned-hard to get out of your head!"
-TOKAFI MUSIC JOURNAL

"A treasure chest of excellent songs"
-LA MUSIC JOURNAL

"An outstanding new songwriter in the vein of oldtime John Lennon and Paul McCartney, with chops you don't hear on records by Fiona Apple or Tori Amos."
-ASKMEN.COM

"Enchanting and original."
-DISCOVER YOUR MUSIC

"Extraordinary. Magnificent."
-ARTIST INTERVIEWS

"Golden voiced Christine Anderson is a world class pianist and composer... This straight ahead piano-vocal record is as raw and real as music gets, a spectacular specimen of pure musicality, stripped down to a bare bones duet between Anderson's heavenly pipes and her possessed-by-Beethoven piano playing. Her ability to improvise like a jazz player and compose all of the music on the fly reveals that this is not only a confident player of consequence, but a champion songwriter with a very bright future."
-MUSIC CONNECTION


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