Kit Armstrong (You need to Login or Register to view media files and links) Kit Armstrong is a thirteen-year-old pianist and composer who also displays remarkable gifts for mathematics, science, and languages. At the age of five, he began formal composition and piano studies. At seven, he became the youngest scholarship student in the history of Chapman University in California, attending the university part-time while completing high school. Two years later, he became a full-time undergraduate student, studying piano performance, composition, and science. He now attends the Royal Academy of Music and Imperial College in London, England.
Whilst attending college, Kit has already given a number of performances; the most notable are the Steinway and Sons' Anniversary concert at Carnegie Hall, the Classical Music Luncheon of the 44th Annual Grammy Awards honoring Van Cliburn, and recitals for the Vancouver Recital Society and Stanford Lively Arts. He has appeared as soloist with numerous orchestras having made his concerto debut at the age of eight.
Forthcoming engagements include Beethoven Concerto No. 1 with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra under Yuri Temirkanov, and a recital at Shriver Hall in their Piano Celebration Festival.
Kit's piano repertoire encompasses a wide range of composers including all 24 Preludes and Fugues from the Well-Tempered Clavier Book I by Bach, 12 Mozart Piano Sonatas, 12 Beethoven Piano Sonatas, as well as works by Haydn, Chopin, Schumann, Liszt, Brahms, Debussy, and Ravel. His concerto repertoire includes works by Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven.
As a composer, Kit has written in various styles. His compositions include numerous pieces for solo piano, a viola sonata, three string quartets, a piano quartet, piano quintet, wind quintet, two piano concertos, a cello concerto, and a symphony. This symphony, "Celebration", which he composed at the age of seven, was premiered by the Pacific Symphony Orchestra. In addition to winning a number of state competitions, he has been awarded the Morton Gould Young Composer Award for four consecutive years.
Kit currently resides in London, where his principal piano teacher is Benjamin Kaplan. When Kit is not practising, composing, or thinking about mathematical problems, he enjoys skiing, playing tennis, squash, and flying paper airplanes. While in California, he enjoys playing with his two pet chickens - Carbon and Nitrogen.
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