Organist Tina Christiansen brings her extensive international experience to Vancouver for a concert that highlights her deep engagement with organ repertoire across centuries and cultures. A graduate of The Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus and a soloist since 2013, she has built a performance career spanning more than 90 concerts throughout Europe and Russia, including appearances at St Paul’s Cathedral and Westminster Abbey in London.
Tina frequently appears as a recitalist and chamber musician, and she has contributed to the organ’s repertoire through world premieres by contemporary composers. Her recordings and performances with ensembles like the Doppler Duo have drawn attention for their clarity, precision, and detail, illustrating the organ’s expressive possibilities in both historic and modern contexts.
Presented in one of Vancouver’s resonant venues, this concert offers listeners a chance to hear an artist whose career reflects both tradition and thoughtful exploration. Tina’s musicianship is informed by years of international touring, deep familiarity with historical instruments, and a commitment to making organ music enjoyable to audiences.
Tina Christiansen is a highly active concert organist with an extensive international career as a soloist, chamber musician and accompanist. She has played numerous concerts throughout Denmark as well as many concerts across large parts of Europe (Norway, Sweden, the Faroe Islands, England, Scotland, Germany, Austria, The Netherlands, France, Italy, Spain, Hungary, Poland, Latvia) and in Russia (the Far East Coast, Siberia, Kaliningrad Cathedral, Saint Petersburg, Arkhangelsk). Tina has also performed as an organ soloist at concerts with the Odense Symphony Orchestra and the Prince's Music Corps.
In 2011, she graduated from The Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus (DK) with the highest marks at the master’s exam in the class of Professor Ulrik Spang-Hanssen. Afterwards Tina was accepted with top marks in the Soloist class (the Advanced Postgraduate Diploma), from which she made her debut concert in 2013. Tina has also studied with Anders Johnsson at Malmö Academy of Music, Sweden, and she has taken masterclasses with Dame Gillian Weir, Roger Fisher, Nigel Allcoat, Leo van Doeselaar, Paolo Crivellaro, Marie-Louise Langlais, Winfried Bönig, Bjørn Andor Drage, Eric Lebrun, Ullrich Böhme, Michele Croese, Hans Fagius and Thomas Trotter.
Tina has participated in a number of competitions in Denmark and abroad and won first prize at the Southern Danish Talent Competition and 3rd prize at the 4th Feliks Nowowiejski Organ Competition, Poland. She has also achieved a final place at Marcello Galanti International Organ competition in Italy and in 2010, Tina won The Royal Academy of Music's Soloist Competition.
Tina has also studied harpsichord and chamber music. As a harpsichordist and continuo player, she has taken part in several major oratorio performances with the Aarhus Bach Society and CD recordings with the Aarhus Symphony Orchestra and the Randers Chamber Orchestra. As an orchestral musician on organ, harpsichord, piano and céleste, she has played many concerts with the Odense Symphony Orchestra, the South Jutland Symphony Orchestra, the Schleswig Music Corps and the Danish Chamber Orchestra. In addition, she frequently works as an accompanist for a large number of choirs, and for more than ten years she has played in the duos Aiolos Sax & Organ Duo ( saxophone and organ ) and Doppler Duo ( recorder and organ ).