Kit Armstrong 

 

At the age of only sixteen, Kit Armstrong is already a remarkable pianist and composer, who also displays extraordinary gifts in mathematics, science, and languages. He began studying piano and composition at the age of five and at seven became the youngest scholarship student ever to be admitted to Chapman University in California. Initially he attended the university part-time while completing high school, then, only two years later, began his full-time study of music and science. He studies regularly with Alfred Brendel. Kit Armstrong made his concerto debut at the age of eight and has appeared as a soloist with several orchestras. His compositions include numerous works for solo piano, a sonata for viola, three string quartets, a piano quartet, two piano quintets, a wind quintet, a piano concerto, and a symphony, composed at the age of seven, which was premiered by the Pacific Symphony Orchestra. He has received the Morton Gould Young Composer Award for four consecutive years.

Future Engagements
During the 2009/10 season, Kit Armstrong makes his debut with the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig under Riccardo Chailly and gives concerts with the Sinfonieorchester of the WDR, Sinfonieorchester Basel and with the Chamber Orchestra Zurich. Further performances take him to the Klavierfestival Ruhr, Schwetzinger Festspiele and Kissinger Sommer as well as to Vienna, Baden-Baden, Dortmund and Munich, where he will not only give a recital, but also play alongside the chamber orchestra of the BR Symphony Orchestra.

 

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