Christopher Elton is a British piano teacher, former Head of the Keyboard department of the Royal Academy of Music in London and a professor emeritus of the University of London.
Christopher Elton was born in Edinburgh and studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he achieved the unusual distinction of gaining the Academy's Dip.RAM, both on piano and cello.
[1] Mr Elton has long served as a professor of piano at the Royal Academy of Music, and later as Head of the Keyboard Department.
His students include José Feghali, Orit Wolf, Joanna MacGregor, Jayson Gillham, Freddy Kempf, Amandine Savary, Yevgeny Sudbin, Rustem Hayroudinoff, Mei Yi Foo, Ashley Wass, Jose Manuel Martinez, Helena Ha-Young Sul, Benjamin Grosvenor, and Julian Trevelyan.
He currently resides with his wife, fellow piano teacher Hilary Coates.