New Canaan Chamber Music
Fall Concert from New Canaan Chamber Music
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James Ehnes, violinist will join Andrew Armstrong, pianist for two chamber music concerts at First Presbyterian Church on Friday, October 29th at 4pm and 6pm.
Andrew Armstrong
New Canaan Chamber Music Summer Concert
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Summer family chamber music concert! Tickets are on sale now for the August 8th 4pm INDOOR New Canaan Chamber Music concert by New Canaan native Andrew Armstrong, pianist, and two distinguished musicians, violinist Arnaud Sussmann, a protege of Itshak Perlman, and R.J. Kelley, an accomplished horn and French horn player. The concert will be at the First Presbyterian Church at 178 Oenoke Ridge. A 3pm talk by R.J. Kelley will precede the concert on the history of the horn as a musical instrument and surprising communications device. For tickets, go to www.newcanaanchambermusic.org/tickets.
Andrew Armstrong
‘So Many Families Are Hungering for More Real-World Interactions’: New Canaan Chamber Music Plans May 22 Outdoor Concert
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Andrew Armstrong, an acclaimed concert pianist who graduated from New Canaan High School in 1992, was days into planning a new chamber concert series in his hometown last March when the COVID-19 pandemic hit. A Worcester, Mass. resident, Armstrong had gained confidence in directing the series after doing so successfully for two years in Columbia, S.C. He re-connected with friends and found a handful of locals willing to help get a New Canaan chamber music series off the ground—then in mid-March, schools went remote, theaters and parks were closed, restaurants were pick-up only and face masks were mandated anywhere outside the home. “I felt a combination of, Well, was I this foolish or is it just bad luck?” Armstrong recalled. “And there were several months of real indecision on my part: Am I leaving people twisting in the wind who had expressed a real interest in doing something together, by not doing anything?