Born in Romania, Cristina Marton studied in Berlin with Georg Sava. She also received lessons from Christian Zacharias, Leon Fleischer, Martha Argerich, Dmitri Baskirov, Stephen Kovacevich, Andras Schiff, Radu Lupu and Alfred Brendel. She has won numerous prizes at international competitions such as the “Arthur Schnabel” (Berlin 1994), “Geza Anda” (Zürich 1994), “Clara Schumann” (Düsseldorf 1997), “Mozart” (Salzburg 1999) and the First “Martha Argerich” International Piano Competition in Buenos Aires 1999.