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在去年底伦敦 Philharmonia Orchestra 的一场音乐会上的节目单上， 看到了 Kit Armstrong 的名字和照片，仔细读他的介绍， 让我惊叹不已，这么年轻，音乐艺术才华横溢，我们平日多看到听到的是音乐神童的演奏天才， 而 Kit Armstrong 不仅在演奏上有天分，还作曲， 但他的才华还不止在音乐艺术上， 他在科学，数学上也表现了极大的兴趣，展示他的天分， 日前他在巴黎大学学习纯数学
Kit Armstrong 的母亲是来自台湾，父亲英国人，五岁正式学习钢琴和作曲，七岁 part-time 加州
名的德国钢琴家 Alfred Bredel 的关门弟子之一 .
他的钢琴演奏范围比较广：从巴赫的： 48 Preludes and Fugues from the Well-Tempered Clavier ， 贝多芬的 15 钢琴奏鸣曲，到莫扎特， 海顿， 勃拉姆斯，肖邦， 舒曼，巴多克等的曲目
作曲方面： Celebration 交响曲， piano solo, tro, quartet, string quartet, wind quintets ， a concerto for clarinet and orchestra ，曲目之多之广让人赞叹，
不久他将在伦敦与 Philharmonia Orchestra 演奏贝多芬的第三钢琴协奏曲； 与享有盛名的，也是最古老交响乐队的莱比锡 Gewandhaus Orchestra 巡回演奏舒曼的钢琴协奏曲。
现在年轻一代的艺术家不少是跨界的， 这是 21 世纪的独特的现象吗？好像不是， 远的古代，古希腊， 古中国不说， 巴罗克时代就有不少音乐家就是身兼诗人，音乐家，数学家，建筑家等于一身， 不管怎么说 Kit Armstrong 是不可多得的音乐人才 , 也许是我们太习惯从钢琴竞赛过三关斩六将出来的演奏家了吧。
Kit Armstrong is an eighteen-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
For several years, Kit Armstrong has regularly studied with Alfred Brendel.
Since his concerto debut at the age of eight, Kit has given recitals and appeared as soloist with numerous orchestras. Upcoming concertos include a tour with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and Riccardo Chailly, as soloist in Schumann’s Piano Concerto (including his debut at the Musikverein Vienna and La Scala Milan ), and appearances with the NDR Symphony Orchestra Hamburg, Bamberg Symphony, London Philharmonia Orchestra, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Gulbenkian Orchestra Lissabon, Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, Swedish Chamber Orchestra and the Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin. In the course of these performances he works with conductors such as Manfred Honeck, Thomas Dausgaard, Jonathan Nott, Ivor Bolton, Marek Janowski and Christoph von Dohnányi. He appears in recitals
This summer, Kit received the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival’s "Leonard Bernstein Award". On that occasion, he performed as soloist in Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3 with the NDR Symphony Orchestra
Kit’s piano repertoire includes the 48 Preludes and Fugues from the Well-Tempered Clavier by Bach, all Mozart Piano Sonatas, 15 Beethoven Piano Sonatas, as well as works by Haydn, Schubert, Chopin, Schumann, Liszt, Brahms, Debussy, Ravel, Bartok, and Ligeti. His concerto repertoire comprises works by Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Schumann, and Bartok.
As a composer, Kit has written in various styles. His compositions include numerous pieces for solo piano and for piano trio, quartet and quintet, as well as string quartets and wind quintets. He was awarded the Morton Gould Young Composer Award for five consecutive years. In 2007, Struwwelpeter, Character Pieces for Viola and Piano won the prestigious Charlotte V. Bergen Scholarship. At the age of seven, he composed a symphony, Celebration, which was performed by the Pacific Symphony Orchestra.
He has been commissioned to write a concerto for clarinet and orchestra for the Verein Frankfurter Bachkonzerte to be performed by Paul Meyer and the Zürcher Kammerorchester, a string quartet for the Szymanowski Quartet at the Gewandhaus Leipzig, and an Overture for the symphony orchestra of the Musikkollegium Winterthur conducted by Douglas Boyd.
http://www.ks-schoerke.de/content/en/artists/klavier/armstrong/bio
阅读更多：
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2005/nov/10/classicalmusicandopera1
http://www.hindu.com/2008/12/20/stories/2008122052911600.htm
