Career & Education

Audio Engineering – Shoreline Community College, Seattle

Classical Composition / Performing Arts – Cornish College of the Arts

Christi is a multi-instrumentalist, music producer, and composer. She founded and built Rare Pop Records in West Seattle, where she worked on numerous projects, including scoring a feature length film and short films, producing albums, and creating music for worldwide advertisements for Google and Sony. She also enjoyed collaborating with local artists and began teaching at a rock school in Seattle before moving to Los Angeles, where she became a full-time music instructor at a music academy.

Over the past six years of teaching in Los Angeles and Seattle, Christi discovered her passion for finding unique ways to spark each student’s curiosity for music and to help them grow as musicians. With thirty-three years of piano study and performance experience, she plays a wide range of styles from classical to jazz, blues, hip-hop, pop, and modern EDM. Christi is also a singer-songwriter who produces her own music, and she enjoys nurturing the creative talents of her students.

Instruments Taught
Piano, Guitar, Voice, Ukulele, Bass, Drums