Christine Niehaus holds Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from the Peabody Conservatory, where she studied piano with Walter Hautzig. Doctoral studies were with Nelita True at the University of Maryland.

Christine Niehaus has performed in the United States, Russia, Sweden, France, Italy and Yugoslavia. She has been honored as “one of the 28 Leading Washington Women Performers” (The Washingtonian) and as a performer of one of the “Ten Best Concerts of the Year” (The Columbia Flyer). In 1985, Niehaus won Grand Prize in the International Piano Recording Competition.

In 1994 Ms. Niehaus moved to Williamsburg from New York City to become the Harry C. and Tina Jordan Gravely Class of 1939 Artist-in-Residence at the College of William & Mary, where she currently teaches piano and group piano. Ms. Niehaus is a Steinway Artist.