Christopher Czaja Sager

Czaja Sager began his piano studies with the noted Matthay exponent, Frances Moyer Kuhns. Thereafter, he studied with Emil Danenberg, an assistant of Arnold Schoenberg. He completed his conservatory studies with Mme Rosina Lhevinne at the Juiliard School, where he earned the School’s highest honors and degrees. Other important pedagogues with whom he studied were Wolfgang Rosé, Earl Wild, Stefan Wolpe (Anaysis), Fenner Douglass and Sylvia Marlowe (harpsichord), Hans Philips (clavichord), and master classes with Alfred Brendel and György Sebök.

An enthusiastic chamber musician, Czaja Sager toured the U.S.A. with the distinguished concert soprano, Adele Addison. He has made broadcasts for the BBC, the Bavarian radio, the NRK, the ORF; all the important Dutch radio societies, and the PBS in the U.S.A. Winner of the first Prize of the National Auditions for Pianists in Washington D.C., First Prize of the Harpsichord Society of New York and the Biennial Recording Competition, he received the first Artist Support Fund Award and performed throughout Europe. Upon the success of this tour, he appeared at Lincoln Center, New York, and was thereafter invited by Mme Olga Koussevitsky to perform on the Rachmaninoff Centennial program. He has been Soloist with orchestra with the conductors Leon Barzin, Ernest Bour, Sir Edward Downes, James Levine, Amerigo Marino, Gerard Oskamp, Antonio Ros Marba, Kenneth Montgomery, Leif Segerstam, and Ed Spanjard. Czaja Sager has given Master Classes in Austria, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, and the U.S.A.