Tamy Christ-Avitabile is a graduate of the University of North Texas. At UNT she studied with the prestigious concert pianist Tong-il Han, who succeeded Itzhak Perlman as the winner of the Leventritt Competition in 1965. She devoted her high school years to studying with Alfred Mouledous, pianist with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra for 37 years and member of SMU faculty since 1960. She has been the President of the Richardson Music Teachers Association and the Composition Coordinator for the State of Texas.

Every student is on their own course of learning predicted by love of music, sheer drive, listening, genes, and always training. Talent is the ability to improve, not the sheer God-given free attributes mistakenly believed to be talent. Progress is addictive to student and teacher. I have devoted my life to making music easier by awakening the senses in the language of music with self-expression and teaching the mathematical theory required to program thousands of notes. The younger your child reaches me, the better chance we have to explore their talent. Adult students add balance to my career and often become my most passionate students. Music defines me in every way.

— Tamy Christ

Ms. Christ was a Featured Artist in the Pagosa Spring Classical Series in April 2014. RMTA featured her performance in their 50th Anniversary Gala in 2015. She believes that performing is the height of creative artistry combined with spirituality. Ms. Christ is married to Ron Avitabile, a drug addiction counselor. The two are united in their service to mankind. She is an avid outdoor adventure lover and writer, and absolutely loves to teach!

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Ms. Christ's teaching studio, featuring "Fire", a 1995 nine-foot Steinway D, and "Epiphany", a 1955 nine-foot Steinway D.

Ms. Christ has trained twenty-one TMTA Piano Performace Area Winners. Her Seniors have won the Jean Pedigo-McKnew Award four times and six of her students have been given the prestigious Lois Boyer Senior Recital Award. Ms. Christ also honors the complete dedication and discipline of all the forty-five pianists who have given public Solo Senior Recitals!

Math and music are inseparable. Pianists must program the mind to process thousands of notes and rhythms. Ms. Christ is fascinated with easing the learning process with theory expertise. The State of Texas has awarded five TMTA Mansfield-Gold Awards and the Loving Mansfield Award to her students who have excelled in this mathematical expertise.

Ms. Christ finds teaching composition to be a particularly fascinating exploration and an outlet to be in the now. Her students have taken the Downbeat Jazz Composition Award for the North American Continent, the MNTA Award for the Southwest Region of the United States, nine First Prizes at TMTA in Original Composition, and three First Place MTNA Senior Composition State of Texas Awards. They have also won top honors with the Dallas Symphony's North Texas Composer's Project Grand Prize and the AP Young Masters Dallas Museum of Art Grand Prize in 2011 and 2013. Five of her students have been named as Winners of the Gillock (1917-1993) Composition Award.

The TMTA Whitlock Memorial Scholarship Award was presented to Ms. Christ's students in 1994 and 2012. This award was presented to the Senior winning the most State Competitions in the preceding four years, of every city in the State of Texas.

The following schools have offered Ms. Christ's students scholarships:

Ms. Christ and her husband Ron.