Kristen Topham is an Adjunct Professor of Piano at Longwood University in Farmville, VA where she teaches piano primary and secondary lessons, class piano, duo/duet repertoire, and music theory. She is also the pianist for the Longwood Advanced choirs. Mrs. Topham is also the Director of the Longwood Center for Community Music, a successful new program that offers quality music instruction to children and adults in the Farmville and surrounding communities. She directs the group piano program at the center which includes teaching the group classes and mentoring the college music majors who student teach the follow-up private lessons. She also teaches the classes for young beginners and adults through the Center where her students develop creative musical expression at the piano. Her private students build a solid technique that connects directly to sound production and musicality.

Prior to living in Farmville, Kristen maintained an active piano studio in Princeton, NJ. Her students performed in the Weill Recital Hall of Carnegie Hall and the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia. She was an Adjunct piano professor at Westminster Choir College for seven years and an artist faculty member at the Westminster Conservatory. Each summer she returns to the Westminster campus as a teacher at the High School Piano Camp.

Kristen holds an MM in Piano Performance and Pedagogy from Westminster Choir College and a BM in Piano Performance from Brigham Young University. He is a Nationally Certified Teacher of Music, and currently serves as the corresponding secretary to the Richmond Chapter of the VMTA.