About our Artistic Director...
Praised by critics for his passionate expression and dazzling technique, pianist Andrew Armstrong has delighted audiences across Asia, Europe, Latin America, Canada, and the United States, including performances at Alice Tully Hall, Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, London’s Wigmore Hall, the Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, and Warsaw’s National Philharmonic.
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Andrew’s orchestral engagements across the globe have encompassed a vast repertoire of more than 60 concertos with orchestra as well as solo recitals and in chamber music concerts at festivals around the country. The last few seasons have taken him to Europe with performances in Glasgow at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Geneva at the Conservatoire de Musique and at the Dresden Music Festival. He crisscrossed Canada with concerts in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Montreal, and Vancouver. On the other side of the planet, he joined 2-time Grammy winning violinist James Ehnes to perform the complete Beethoven Violin Sonata cycle in Melbourne, Australia as well as a duo recital in Sydney, and went solo for a piano recital in Singapore.
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This 2024-25 season, Andrew will perform Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 with the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra in Winnipeg and Rachmaninov’s 2nd Piano Concerto with the Waterbury Symphony in Connecticut. In addition to his thriving chamber music series in Beaufort (USCB Chamber Music) and Columbia, SC (SC Philharmonic’s Andy & Friends), New Canaan, CT (New Canaan Chamber Music), and at the Fabbri Mansion, an intimate 1609 Italian Renaissance Library that seats only 80, in New York City (Fabbri Chamber Concerts), Andrew will direct special chamber music performances this season in Charleston and Kiawah Island, SC and in Glens Falls, NY.
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Finally, Andrew launches two new chamber music series this 24-25 season. In Greenville, SC, the Sigal Music Museum presents Andy & Friends, a combination of evening chamber music concerts and daytime workshops and masterclasses at the remarkable public arts high school, the Fine Arts Center. And closest of all to Andrew’s heart, there is the launch in Oct 2024 of the inaugural season of his new chamber series, A Little Night Music at Tuckerman Hall in Worcester, MA, the vibrant city where Andrew lives happily with his wife Esty, their three children Jack (18), Elise (13), and Gabriel (7), and their two dogs Comet and Dooker.
September 2024
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Armstrong’s phrases were pristine, each passage imbued with subtle weight…
Aaron Keebaugh
June 29, 2018 – Rockport, MA