Born in Innsbruck, Austria, Christine Schwarzinger began studying violin at the age of ten at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. She studied with professors Dora Schwarzberg, Michael Schnitzler and Edward Zienkowski. She took part in master classes with renowned violinists such as Zakhar Bron, Ernst Kovacic, Christian Altenburger and Emil Kamilarov. Furthermore she obtained a law degree at the University of Vienna.

Christine Schwarzinger is a winner and prize winner of national and international competitions, including competitions of the International Music Days in Uppsala, Sweden, as a soloist and chamber musician, as well as the Stefanie Hohl Violin Competition at the University of Music Vienna. She has not only won several prizes at Jugend Musiziert competitions in Austria as a violinist, but also as a pianist in the chamber music category.

She played her first concert as a soloist with orchestra at the age of thirteen. She went on to perform as a soloist at the Vienna Konzerthaus, at the Festival Internacional de Orquestas de Jovenes in Murcia, Spain, and at the International Music Days in Uppsala, Sweden. Other concerts have taken her regularly to various European countries such as Austria, Germany, Spain and Sweden.

Christine Schwarzinger is particularly active as a chamber musician in various formations at home and abroad. Her great interest in chamber music was awakened as a teenager by the famous violinist Yehudi Menuhin who recognized her talent and recommended that she also play chamber music.

For example, she was a member of the Villa-Lobos trio, which specialised in South-American piano trio literature and was nominated for a Latin Grammy Award in the „Best Classical Album“ category. She has played numerous concerts, including in renowned concert halls and at well-known concert series, including at the Vienna Musikverein, the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Konzerthaus Klagenfurt (Mozartgemeinde), the Landesgalerie Linz (Oberösterreichische Landeskonzerte), the Jazz Fest Vienna, the Karajan Centrum Vienna, the Brazilian Embassy in Vienna, the Salzburg Residenz, the International Ignaz Joseph Pleyel Society, the Theater am Spittelberg Vienna, the Austrian Cultural Forum in New York, the Austrian Cultural Forum in Berlin, the Stora Salongen in Stockholm and the Vienna Days in Moscow.

For some of her concerts, she was provided with master violins crafted by Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesu, Antonio Stradivari and Lorenzo Storioni.

Excerpts from her concerts have been broadcast on national and international TV and radio (ORF, TV Brasil etc.).