Christina Maria Faye (aka Tina Faye) is a versatile pianist, keyboardist, music director and vocal coach with a proven track record in high pressure situations and a deep command of many musical genres, from pop ballads to contemporary opera, musical theater to Bach chamber music. Before moving to the NYC area she was a regular first call in Toronto for orchestral gigs, commercial recording projects and opera and theater productions as well holding long term positions with organizations such as the Canadian Children’s Opera Company, the Nathaniel Dett Chorale, NewChoir, the Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra and Pax Christi Chorale. She is one half of the successful 2 woman opera comedy show ‘Millan & Faye Present: The Opera!’ and in the spring of 2024 will be releasing her album ‘Glass Reimagined – Etudes 1-10’ in partnership with drummer Chris Sutherland. Tina is a Yamaha Keyboard Artist and is featured in the 2024 Yamaha Artist 440 series.

Selected Performance Experience

‘Treemonisha’ (Joplin) Canadian Opera Company/Volcano/Luminato, Repetiteur – 2023

‘Sweeney Todd: The Demon of Fleet Street’ (Sondheim) Theatre Sheridan, Music Director – 2023

‘The Nightingale of a Thousand Songs’ (Kradjian) Canadian Childrens’ Opera Company, AMD – 2023

‘Harriet Tubman: When I Crossed That Line to Freedom’ (Okoye) Nathaniel Dett Chorale, Pianist – 2023

‘Cuphead’ Video Game Studio MDHR (Grammy, JUNO and BAFTA awarded) Piano – 2017

‘Cuphead DLC’ Video Game Studio MDHR (Grammy and BAFTA awarded) Piano & Celeste – 2022

‘Full Blast’ NewChoir, Bluma Appel Theatre, Associate MD, keyboard/synth – 2023

‘New Nostalgia’ NewChoir, Isabel Bader Theatre, Associate MD, keyboard/synth – 2023

‘All Is Love’ Opera Atelier, Toronto, Repetiteur – 2022

‘Philip Glass Reimagined’ Quebec International Drum Festival, Palais Montcalm MD, Pianist – 2022

‘Eugene Onegin (Tchaikovsky) Opera Queens, Music Director, Pianist – 2022

‘Considering Matthew Shepard’ (Johnson) Pax Christi Chorale, Associate MD, Pianist – 2022

‘The Snow Queen’ (Greer) Canadian Childrens’ Opera Company, Associate MD, Orch Piano – 2019

Principal Keyboard Chair Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra, 2019 – 2022

‘Millan&Faye Present: The Opera!’ Fox Entertainment Tour, MD, Performer – 2017- 2022

‘Mozart’s Masonic Journey’ (The Magic Flute) Music Director– 2016 & 2018

‘The Monkiest King’ (Ping Yee Ho) Canadian Children’s Opera Company, Repetiteur – 2018

‘Barber of Seville’, (Rossini) Opera York, Repetiteur & Continuo – 2014