Christina and Michelle Naughton were born in Princeton, New Jersey, on September 2, 1988,[1] to parents of European and Chinese ancestry.
They earned bachelor's degrees in solo piano performance in 2011 at Curtis, where they both received the Festorazzi Prize.
[7][8] Subsequently, the Naughtons performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Houston Symphony, the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, Nashville Symphony, the Buffalo Philharmonic, the Hong Kong Philharmonic, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, the Royal Flemish Philharmonic, and the Solistes Européens Luxembourg, under conductors including Stéphane Denève, Edo de Waart, Charles Dutoit, JoAnn Falletta, Giancarlo Guerrero, Andrés Orozco-Estrada and Michael Stern.
The sisters' recital appearances have included the Schubert Club of St. Paul, the Naumburg Bandshell in New York's Central Park, Chamber Music San Francisco, the Houston Society for the Performing Arts, the Chamber Music Society of Detroit, Munich's Gasteig, the Berlin Philharmonie's Kammermusiksaal, France's Festival de La Roque-d'Anthéron, Zurich's Tonhalle, and Prague's Strings of Autumn Festival.
In 2019, Christina and Michelle became the first piano duo to receive Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Career Grant.