Artistic Director and Founder, New Canaan Chamber Music

Praised by critics for his passionate expression and dazzling technique, pianist Andrew Armstrong has delighted audiences worldwide 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.

Andrew’s performances cover a vast repertoire of more than 60 concertos with orchestra. He has appeared with conductors Peter Oundjian, Itzhak Perlman, Günther Herbig, Stefan Sanderling, Jean-Marie Zeitouni, and Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, and in solo recitals and chamber music concerts with the Ehnes, Elias, Alexander, American, and Manhattan String Quartets, and at chamber music festivals.

 This 2024-25 season, Andrew will perform Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 with the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra, and Rachmaninov’s 2nd Piano Concerto with the Waterbury (CT) Symphony. In addition to his thriving chamber music series in Beaufort and Columbia, SC, New Canaan, CT, and at the Fabbri Mansion in New York City, Andrew will direct special chamber music performances in Charleston, Kiawah, and Greenville, SC, Glens Falls, NY and Worcester, MA.

Andrew’s past season included solo recitals in Scotland and England; concerts in the UK and EU; violin recitals wit James Ehnes in London and the University of Michigan; Chamber Music in Halifax, NS and Portland, ME; a concerto with the SC Philharmonic; and release of a solo album featuring Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, plus a recording session for the album “Home-Away-Home.”, 

Andrew is Founder and Artistic Director of New Canaan Chamber Music, Artistic Director of the USC Beaufort’s Chamber Music Series as well as Columbia’s “Andy & Friends,” presented by the SC Philharmonic. His performances are heard regularly on stations across the country and on National Public Radio, and WQXR, New York. He lives in Massachusetts, with his wife Esty, children Jack (18), Elise (13), and Gabriel (7), and dogs Comet and Dooker.