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Antonia Klein was born in Munich. She studied musicology and history at the University of Vienna. She also took voice, piano and violin lessons for many years.

For ten years, she worked in the organisation and planning departments of various German speaking theatres, for example, as Head of Artistic Planning at the Nationaltheater in Mannheim and most recently, as Artistic Administrator at the Komische Oper Berlin.

Then she worked at the distinguished concert promoter Società del Quartetto in Milan and, after that, the artists’ agency Allied Artists in London.

She worked for the Internationale Künstleragentur Dietsch, the European office of Pinnacle Arts New York, before she opened her own agency in September 2005.

Christina Story has profited from a truly international upbringing. Born in Munich, she grew up in the US and France. After obtaining an Baccalauréat à Option Internationale, she studied piano at the Conservatoire National de Région de Versailles. Christina then opted for musicological studies at King’s College, London, from whence she graduated with a First Class B.MUS. She then worked for Harold Holt Ltd (Askonas Holt Ltd.) in the Tours and Projects Department. She obtained a grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council to complete a Ph.D. in music history entitled Music and Musicians in the Court and City of Paris during the Reign of Charles VI (1380 - 1422) at Royal Holloway, University of London, Ph.D. which she completed in 2008. She joined agentur klein in November 2008. Christina speaks fluent German, French, English and Italian, and her Spanish is good.