Christopher Shih

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Christopher Shih has a remarkable dual career as both full-time practicing physician and actively concertizing pianist. Hailed by the New York Times as “an intelligent and thoughtful musician” with “effortless performances” and “consummate control,” he has performed in major venues worldwide and has soloed with numerous orchestras, including repeated engagements with the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall in Washington, D.C. His performance with the National Symphony on the Capitol Lawn for an audience of 50,000 prompted the Washington Post to declare, “If Shih is as gifted in medicine as he is in music, he has some serious career decisions to make.” Other orchestral engagements include the Georgetown, Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, New England Conservatory, Harvard-Radcliffe, Newton, Lancaster, and Paris Garde Republicaine symphony orchestras. An avid chamber musician, he regularly performs with world-class artists and principals of major orchestras across the nation, including in recent seasons the American, Daedalus, Dover, Escher, Pacifica, and Ying quartets.

Dr. Shih was the winner of the sixth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition for Outstanding Amateurs in Fort Worth, Texas. He was also a press and audience favorite at the professional tenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, and was the grand prize winner of the amateur competitions in Paris, Boston, and Washington, D.C.

Dr. Shih is currently a board-certified gastroenterologist with U.S. Digestive Health in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He received his B.A. from Harvard University and his M.D. from The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

For more information, please visit christophershih.com.

Sponsors: Louisa Lundgren Legacy Artist Fund, Laura and Roy Lundgren, Lia Lundgren