Christian Blackshaw is a British classical pianist, born in Cheshire on 18 January 1949. Blackshaw was educated at The King's School, Macclesfield. In his teens he played oboe in the Stockport Youth Orchestra in Greater Manchester. He studied at the Royal Northern College of Music, and at the Royal Academy of Music with Gordon Green. He then studied at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory under Moisei Halfin. He was later tutored in London by Clifford Curzon. Blackshaw lives between London and Suffolk, and has three daughters. After the death of his wife of cancer, Blackshaw quit the concert hall for many years and returned to play in public in 2011-2012 performing a series of concerts of the complete Sonatas by Mozart 

January 18th, 1949 in Cheshire (Age 75)