The Danish concert pianist Christina Bjorkoe was born in Copenhagen. At the age of 19 she was accepted by the Juilliard School of Music in New York where she studied with Seymour Lipkin, and later with Anne Oland at the Royal Danish Academy of Music. She has appeared as a soloist, with orchestral engagements and as a chamber musician at venues in Denmark, including the Tivoli Concert Hall’s major Beethoven, Chopin, and Schubert series, as well as in Sweden, Germany, the Czech Republic, Croatia, Poland, France, and South America, Asia, and the USA. On this release, Bjorkoe presents Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations. “Christina Bjorkoe lets loose with her most incisive, dynamically charged playing.” (Classics Today)
