Andrew Armstrong
Pianist Andrew Armstrong has an international career, having performed items from his large repertory of 35 concertos at all the major U.S. concert halls and prestigious venues across Europe. He is a noted chamber player, often performing and recording with violinist James Ehnes.
Armstrong was born on February 18, 1974, in New Canaan, Connecticut, and has continued to perform often in cities along the Connecticut coast. He began piano lessons at age seven, at first only because he was jealous of his older sister, Jane, who had been offered them. He took to the instrument, and his father, a pianist, noticed how he began to carefully shape the music he played. In his teens, Armstrong was sent to the Hoff-Berthelson School in Scarsdale, New York, for studies with Miyoko Nakaya. He began to win prizes, 25 of them in all, and as a freshman at Columbia University (he paid his tuition largely with prize money), he entered the Van Cliburn Competition in Fort Worth, Texas. Earning plaudits from Cliburn himself, Armstrong won a Jury Discretionary Award. After that, though, the prizes dried up, and a first-round washout at the next Cliburn Competition caused Armstrong to think he was prioritizing prize-winning over musicality. He dropped out of Columbia, left his teacher, and began to study concertos on his own, taking engagements with orchestras large and small that wanted to have him. The strategy proved fruitful: he met Columbus (OH) Symphony conductor Günther Herbig, who invited him to perform with the orchestra. In 2004, he made his recording debut on the Cordelia Records label with the album Andrew Armstrong Plays Rachmaninov, Scriabin & Mussorgsky.
In 2000, he married violinist Ayako Yoshida, for whom he had served as accompanist; the marriage ended in divorce (he has since remarried and had four children), but it marked the beginning of a successful chamber music career marked by frequent collaborations with star violinist James Ehnes. He has also performed with the Alexander, Manhattan, and American String Quartets. Armstrong has appeared at many major American venues, including Alice Tully Hall and Carnegie Hall in New York, and the Kennedy Center in Washington, as well as across Europe (including at the Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatory), Latin America, and Asia. He has a strong interest in music education and often performs concerts for children. After releasing two recital albums in the early 2000s, Armstrong was highly visible on recordings in the 2010s, accompanying Ehnes on a cycle of Bartók violin-and-piano works on the Chandos label. The pair moved to Onyx in 2015 for an album of violin sonatas by Franck and Strauss, and in 2019 began a cycle of Beethoven's works for violin and piano. Armstrong also backed cellist Robert deMaine on an album of works by Fauré, Grieg, and Rachmaninov. The Beethoven series concluded in 2020, and Armstrong returned on Onyx in 2023, backing Ehnes on the album Mythes: Szymanowski, Handel. Armstrong serves as Artistic Director of Columbia Museum of Art's Chamber Music on Main series in South Carolina.
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Debussy, Elgar, Respighi & Sibelius: Violin Sonatas
Musique de chambre - Paru chez Onyx Classics le 18 mars 2016
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Bartók: Works for Violin and Piano, Vol. 2
Musique de chambre - Paru chez Chandos le 26 déc. 2012
4 étoiles Classica5 de Diapason24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Bartók: Works for Violin and Piano, Vol. 1
Duos - Paru chez Chandos le 5 janv. 2012
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Beethoven: Violin Sonatas No. 6 & 9 'Kreutzer'
Musique de chambre - Paru chez Onyx Classics le 24 févr. 2017
5 de Diapason24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Bartók: Works for Violin and Piano, Vol. 3
James Ehnes, Amy Schwartz Moretti, Andrew Armstrong, Michael Collins
Duos - Paru chez Chandos le 1 juin 2014
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Mythes, Op. 30: I. La fontaine d’Arethuse
Musique de chambre - Paru chez Onyx Classics le 1 mai 2023
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Beethoven Violin Sonatas Nos. 7 & 10
Musique de chambre - Paru chez PM Classics Ltd. le 11 déc. 2020
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Fauré, Grieg & Rachmaninoff: Works for Cello & Piano
Robert deMaine, Andrew Armstrong
Classique - Paru chez Leaf Music le 7 juil. 2017
24-Bit 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Beethoven Violin Sonatas Op. 12
Musique de chambre - Paru chez PM Classics Ltd. le 25 oct. 2019
24-Bit 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Beethoven: Violin Sonatas Nos. 4, 5 & 8
Musique de chambre - Paru chez PM Classics Ltd. le 24 avr. 2020
24-Bit 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Franck and Strauss: Violin Sonatas
Musique de chambre - Paru chez Onyx Classics le 4 mai 2015
5 de Diapason16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Russian Piano Masterpieces
Classique - Paru chez Cordelia Records le 1 janv. 2004
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Estrellita (Arr. for Violin & Piano by Jascha Heifetz)
Musique de chambre - Paru chez Onyx Classics le 19 mai 2023
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Violin Sonata in D Major, HWV 371: IV. Allegro
Musique de chambre - Paru chez Onyx Classics le 6 mai 2023
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Stagefright
Friends That Are Cousins, Mackenzie Edmondson, Charis Armstrong, Andrew Armstrong
Alternatif et Indé - Paru chez Friends That Are Cousins le 16 juin 2021
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Andrew Armstrong
Classique - Paru chez Cordelia Records le 1 janv. 2007
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Priory LP Archive Series, Vol. 3
Malcolm Archer, Andrew Armstrong, Peter Gould, Paul Derrett
Classique - Paru chez Priory Records le 13 déc. 1990
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo