Young Artist Concerto Competition

Christopher Tillen is a junior at Noble and Greenough High School in Dedham MA. He started taking piano lessons at age 6 and has been a top prize winner in many competitions including Steinway & Sons Piano Competition, Bay State MTNA Piano Competition, University Rhode Island Piano Extravaganza Bach Award, and the A Ramon Rivera Piano Competition. In addition, he has been named Fall River Symphony Orchestra's Young Artist Concerto winner; the Doreen B. Hertzog Concerto winner; Concerto Festival NYC Grand Prix winner; and the Sempre Musick Concerto first prize and soloist. He has performed in many venues, community events and recitals including the Mildred Freiberg piano festival and the River’s Conservatory Seminar on Contemporary Music.  This season, Christopher will also be playing the 2nd Rachmaninoff concerto with the Orchestra of the Southern Finger Lakes (OSFL) of New York.

Christopher is a Young Artist Diploma Level IV scholar and currently studies with Ms. Erin Lindsey at the Rivers School Conservatory.  In his spare time, Christopher enjoys debating, writing, singing, theatre and musical performance, community service and running. He is an Achieve tutor, a member of Nobles Model UN, debate and Mock Trial clubs, the Nobles Theater Collective, the school newspaper, and is the Assistant Artistic Director of Nobleonians male acapella group.