Christopher Shih performs Brahms' Piano Quintet with the Daedalus Quartet, live at The Ware Center, Lancaster PA, October 14, 2016.

Brahms Quintet with Daedalus Quartet

Christopher Shih performs Schumann's Piano Quintet with the American String Quartet, live at the Trust Center for the Performing Arts, Lancaster PA, May 3, 2018.

Schumann Quintet with American String Quartet

Narek Hakhnazaryan, cello, and Christopher Shih, piano, perform at Millersville University's Ware Center in downtown Lancaster, PA. March 27, 2014.

Shostakovich Cello Sonata with Narek Hakhnazaryan

Dvorak's Dumky Trio, with Nurit Bar-Josef, violin, Amit Peled, cello, and Christopher Shih, piano. Performed live at the Candlelight Concert Society, Columbia MD, May 18, 2013.

Dumky with Bar-Josef and Peled

Brahms Piano Quartet in G minor. Christopher Shih (Piano); Scott Yoo (Violin); Caitlin Lynch (Viola); Dariusz Skoraczewski (Cello). Festival Mozaic, San Luis Obispo, August 4, 2019.

Brahms G Minor Piano Quartet at Mozaic

4th Mvt of Schumann Piano Quintet with the Pacifica Quartet, Candlelight Concert Society, Columbia MD. April 14, 2012.

Schumann Quintet 4th Mvt with Pacifica

4th movement of Shostakovich's piano quintet, with the Dover Quartet, at the Trust Performing Arts Center in Lancaster PA. March 27, 2022.

Shost Quintet 4th Mvt with Dover

Performed live by Christopher Shih, Boston 2008.

Granados Los Requiebros from Goyescas

Performed live by Christopher Shih, Paris 2008.

Chopin Barcarolle

Brahms Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 21 no. 1

Liszt Totentanz for Solo Piano

Christopher Shih performs Liszt's Totentanz with the Lancaster Symphony Orchestra, Fulton Theater, November 1, 2015.

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Liszt Totentanz with Lancaster Symphony

Christopher Shih and Thomas Yu perform Dukas' Sorcerer's Apprentice at Texas' SMU in November 2017.

Sorcerer's Apprentice with Thomas Yu

The Escher String Quartet performs Dvorak's Piano Quintet in A major with pianist Christopher Shih, Candlelight Concert Society, Columbia MD, May 11, 2019.

Dvorak Quintet with Escher Quartet

Physician and pianist 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 DC. 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. His performance was fluent, gracious, miraculously light, and a joy to the ear." Other orchestral engagements include the Georgetown, Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, New England Conservatory, Harvard-Radcliffe, Newton, Lancaster, and Paris Garde Republicaine symphony orchestras. 
Christopher is 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. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram raved, "He demonstrated a magical touch in voicing and a fine Chopinesque rubato...a total sense of style across three centuries. For Shih, technical control supports impeccable musicianship." Christopher is also the grand prize winner of the amateur competitions in Paris, Boston, and Washington DC. His playing and interviews have been featured in television and radio programs worldwide, including NPR's All Things Considered, APM's Performance Today, WGBH's Inner Voice, WQXR, WETA, WGMS, WBJC, Radio France, Radio Classique, Canadian CBC, Taiwan CTV, and Pianist Magazine.
Christopher is currently a board-certified gastroenterologist with U.S. Digestive Health in Lancaster, PA. He received his B.A. cum laude from Harvard University and his M.D. from The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He did his internal medicine residency training at the University of Pennsylvania and his gastroenterology fellowship training at Johns Hopkins. He is also active in community and charitable services, formerly sat on the GI board exam committee of the American Board of Internal Medicine, and is a Fellow of the American College of Gastroenterology. An avid chamber musician, he regularly performs with world-class artists, ensembles, and principals of major orchestras across the nation. In recent seasons he has appeared with violinists Nurit Bar-Josef, Alexander Kerr, David Kim, Elizabeth Pitcairn, Michael Shih, and Scott Yoo; cellists Narek Hakhnazaryan and Amit Peled; clarinetist Anthony McGill; the American, Daedalus, Escher, Pacifica, and Ying Quartets; and the string quintet Sybarite5.

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