Greek pianist Christina Maria Koti specialised in song accompaniment at the École Normale de Musique de Paris with Pascal Rogé and François Le Roux. In the 2024-2025 season, she was musician-in-residence at the Fondation Hellénique. She previously obtained her master's degree in piano from the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music & Dance in London.
Together with her duo partner, baritone Jared Andrew Michaud, they won first prize in the Federation of Art Song Fellowship Competition 2022 (New York City), the Elisabeth Schumann Lieder Duo Competition 2022 (London) and the 4th International SGSM Singing Competition, Lieder Duo category (Slovenia). The duo was also selected to represent France in the Young Europe Sings Academy (YES) 2023-2024.
Koti took master classes at the Heidelberger Frühling Liedzentrum and with Wolfram Rieger at the Schubertíada International Lied Duo. She has also appeared at several festivals, including the Colla Voce/Horto Festival and the London Song Festival. She also won the Founders Prize in Piano Accompaniment (London 2022) and was an Emerging Artist in the Art of Song programme at the Toronto Summer Music Festival in summer 2024. In the 2023-2024 season, she was one of the song pianists in the Wigmore Hall French Song Exchange Programme 2023-2024.
