Long before Christy became a member of Mannheim Steamroller, she was exposed to the popular music of Chip Davis and the Grammy-winning band. The music of Mannheim Steamroller was a staple for her family's holiday gatherings and festivities, and she learned many of Chip's arrangements on her own, and played them as the entertainment at holiday parties. Little did she know that one day, she would put all that practice to good use, and be invited to become part of the band. When the phone rang with the invitation to perform as the band's keyboardist, she was thrilled to accept and working with Chip was a childhood dream come true. Playing in hundreds of concerts in the United States and abroad has been a highlight of Christy's career. "Christmas at the Piano" is an intimate and warm rendition of Mannheim Steamroller's most popular holiday classics, played on piano and keyboard instruments. Whether you are sitting by the fire, sipping hot chocolate, driving to the mall to shop, or gathered around a holiday feast, Christy's piano playing is sure to put you and your loved ones in a festive and cheerful holiday mood. YOUR CD PURCHASE SUPPORTS INNOVATIVE CAREER DEVELOPMENT FOR 1000 YOUNG MUSIC STUDENTS: All proceeds from this album go towards funding Christy's "Musician to Musicpreneur" professional development programs for high school music students and teachers, subsidizing extracurricular music program costs that public schools cannot provide their talented and gifted students. The program focuses on developing 5 Key Skills in performance and entrepreneurship that are crucial for success as a musician in the digital world. Over 300 students participated in the "Musician to Musicpreneur" program in 2017, and Christy's goal is to have 1000 music students go through the program in 2018! MORE ABOUT CHRISTY CROWL A life-long music professional, Christy has toured the world as a Top 20 Adult Contemporary Artist in addition to having an extensive sidelining career, where she experienced the world and the studio with such music legends and popular acts as Barbra Streisand, Julie Andrews, Gnarls Barkley, Engelbert Humperdinck, and has performed in hundreds of concerts around the United States and abroad as keyboardist of the Grammy-winning band Mannheim Steamroller. She is also the first woman conductor of the hit Broadway musical Wicked, and has over two decades worth of studio music credits as a singer, songwriter, keyboard player, and composer/arranger (titles that include Star Wars Rogue One, Star Trek Beyond, Jurassic World, and Planet of the Apes). Christy holds a Technology Entrepreneurship Certificate from Stanford University, a Master of Music degree in Media Writing and Production, as well as a Bachelors of Music degree in Keyboard Performance from the University of Miami. She is also the Founder of ProMusicDB.org: the professional music credits database and archive, whose mission is to promote, preserve, foster, and advance careers in music in the digital world, and has been a guest speaker at national music industry and academic conferences including Music Biz, the American Library Association, and the Music Library Association.
