As a researcher, Christian explores how the affordances of modern musical instruments influence phrasing. His artistic research project “(Re)Phrasing—Shaping Music with Modern Instruments” expands on the phrasing challenges modern instrumentalists face.

As a multiple award-winning soloist, he regularly appears as a guest principal clarinetist with various orchestras across the Nordic countries, Europe, Asia, and Australia, including the Philharmonia Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.

Christian Stene has held masterclasses on six continents at leading music institutions in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Slovakia, Spain, Singapore, Malaysia, China, Australia, Brazil, Argentina, South Africa, and the United States.

Christian Stene’s recordings are available as a soloist on LAWO, as a chamber musician on Classico and LAWO, and in orchestral works on Naïve, Chandos, BIS, Hyperion, Ondine, Aurora, and LAWO.