Christopher James Kite, (Ilford, Essex, November 5, 1947 - London June 15, 1994) was a clover ball player, pianist and music teacher.
Lifecycle After his studies at Oxford University and at the Royal College of Music at Millicent Silver (1905-1986), Kite debuted with a concert in Wigmore Hall in 1972 and developed a busy career with piano, piano and piano performances. In 1977, he won the Fourth Prize at the International Clove Crash Tournament in Bruges, within the context of the Musica Antiqua Festival.He was only thirty when he taught clover and pianoforte at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and attracted a lot of talented students.
Kite was an all-round professor, who prepared his students for the concert life as well as soloist or as accompanist, as a teacher or as a publisher of music. He himself practiced all those aspects. He published the keyboard works by Georg Friedrich Händel, Henry Purcell and Domenico Scarlatti. He became head of music studies at the Guildhall School of Music (1987-1994). This meant, among other things, leading the course of Old Music which he brought to new heights. He did the same for the Guildhall's Jazz and Rock Course and for the training of teachers. From 1989 he was a director and from 1992 until his death chairman of the Early Music Center in London.
He further developed his concerted activities. He formed a famous piano music with Robert Ferguson and also performed solo, all over Europe. He would like to participate in summer courses, both in England and overseas, as a presenter and as a teacher.
The Guildhall School of Music extends a Christopher Kite Memorial Prize. Discography
Kite did a lot of recordings, including Publications Private
Kite was married to Ursula Ksinsik in 1981 and they had a son Sebastian.
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