Violinist Christine Harada Li is a versatile and dynamic artist who has performed across the U.S.A., Canada, Japan, Germany, Italy, Austria, Spain, and Israel. Recently she has been the featured soloist with the Eau Claire Chamber Orchestra, St. Croix Valley Symphony Orchestra, Tlaquepaque Filharmonia, UWEC Symphony Orchestra, University of Michigan Symphony Orchestra, Marquette Symphony Orchestra and Anchorage Youth Symphony. A passionate chamber musician, she has frequently performed with the award-winning Koinonia Piano Trio, which has been playing together since 2015. As an orchestral musician, Christine has had the opportunity to play with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, the CityMusic Cleveland Chamber Orchestra, and Ann Arbor Symphony. She has performed (both violin and viola) as a guest artist at the Maui Classical Music Festival, Center Stage Strings, Oberlin Acoustics Workshop and Ann Arbor Chamber Fest.

 

Beyond performing, Christine is an active leader in the arts community. In her hometown where she grew up, she is Artistic Director and Founder of the Anchorage Chamber Music Festival, which she founded with Nathaniel Pierce in 2013. She has served as the President of the Anchorage Fine Arts Society and Co-Education Director at the Innsbrook Institute Summer Music Academy.

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Her chamber ensemble, Koinonia Piano Trio, received numerous honors, including 1st place for the American Prize and 1st Prize in the Briggs Chamber Music Competition. Christine was the winner of the University of Michigan concerto competition and performed Benjamin Britten's Violin Concerto with the University Symphony Orchestra. In 2012, Christine was selected as the Young Alaskan Artist of the year and presented a recital with YAA director, Juliana Osinchuk.

 

Raised in a musical family, Christine began studying violin at the age of five and piano at the age of nine. Her childhood principal teachers were Beverly Beheim for violin and Rumi Smith for piano. Christine made her international debut when she was 10 years old at the Talent Education Research Institute’s Suzuki Summer School in Matsumoto, Japan.

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Christine is a dedicated educator and currently serves as Assistant Violin Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. She maintains an active studio of violin and viola students at the collegiate level, and a studio of pre-college students at the University of Wisconsin String Academy.

 

Christine earned her Doctorate in Musical Arts (D.M.A.) in 2020, studying with David Halen at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theater and Dance. She graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Michigan and completed her Master of Music degree at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien in Hannover, Germany, studying with Yehonatan Berick, Elisabeth Kufferath, Anne Röhrig (baroque), and Arthur Greene (piano). 

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Christine performs on a 1799 Nicolas Lupot violin, which is generously on loan to her from Sharon Davies.