Maltese pianist Christine Zerafa has appeared as a soloist and chamber musician in various international venues including the Royal Festival Hall, Wigmore Hall, Cadogan Hall, and Queen Elizabeth Hall, amongst others. She has also performed in distinguished festivals including Oxford Lieder Festival, Cheltenham Festival, and has also played live on BBC TV and Radio 3. Most recently she was made an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music, an honour in recognition of her significant contribution to the music profession.

Christine has been recipient of various awards including the Bice Mizzi National Competition, the
Royal Northern College of Music Clifton Helliwell Prize, the Royal Academy of Music Scott Huxley prize for piano accompaniment, the Schumann Lieder pianist prize, as well as the Eric Brough Prize and the John B McEwen Prize during her studies. Christine was twice selected as a Park Lane Group Artist and she was also an award winner on the Tunnell Trust Artist Chamber Music Scheme.

Christine enjoys a very busy performance schedule as a soloist, chamber musician, song accompanist and orchestral pianist. Besides performing, Christine also enjoys coaching singers and instrumentalists and she has frequently been invited as a visiting staff pianist at the Royal College of Music, and the Royal Academy of Music, where she worked with students from woodwind, vocal and string faculties in master classes, competitions, exam recitals and entrance auditions. She has accompanied her duo partners in international competitions, which performances led to various awards, including the Tillet Trust award, ROSL Gold Medal award, Philip and Dorothy Green Making Music Award, Tunbridge Wells International Competition, Young Concert Artists Trust (YCAT), and BBC Young Musician.

Christine gained a Master of Music in solo performance from the Royal Northern College of Music where she studied with Norma Fisher and Paul Janes, after which she moved on to study with Andrea Lucchesini at the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole in Florence. Having a great passion for collaboration with singers and instrumentalists, she then read for a Master of Music degree in piano accompaniment, which she completed with distinction at the Royal Academy of Music under the tuition of Michael Dussek, Malcolm Martineau and Ian Brown. She has recently completed her PhD at the Royal Academy of Music, which focused on the role of the pianist in the art of song and duo chamber music.