Interview: Kit Armstrong, concert pianist, composer and mathematician

 Interview: Kit Armstrong, concert pianist, composer and mathematician

The closest Kit Armstrong has come to seeing Scotland was the time that he boarded the wrong train from Carlisle.


"I had been going for Whitehaven, but ended up moving in the incorrect direction," remembers the 20-year-old American-born concert pianist, whose coming trip to the Perth Festival of the Arts together with the Berlin Symphony Orchestra following week is completely intentional.


Perth is their sole look north of the Border, hence the sole chance for Scottish viewers to find out what all the fuss is about seeing Armstrong, who came to spike public sight as a ten-year-old prodigy appearing America's Late Show with David Letterman.


The matter is, Armstrong was intellectually before the match. He was then analyzing at Philadelphia's Curtis Institute, also attending science and maths classes in the University of Pennsylvania.


He had begun studying the piano , but had composed his own compositions well before that, among that -- an immaculately-structured, if cutely conventional, bit of piano writing -- he'd played Letterman and his countless viewers.


By his second birthday, when many 13-year-old boys could have been fighting with the psychological transition into secondary school, Armstrong was in London, studying composition at the Royal Academy of Music, piano together with Benjamin Kaplan and carrying complex maths courses at Imperial College, while taking major performance admissions in america and Europe.


He'd been seen by Alfred Brendel, whom Armstrong fulfilled following a performance that the child gave in Philadelphia. Brendel consented to mentor himan outstanding endorsement of Armstrong's ethics as a musician, even provided that Brendel only instructs the chosen few, and even then, just people who share his extreme universal intellectualism.


"My playing with a Chopin Nocturne grabbed his interest. But within the previous eight years which is now something beyond music. We share a lot of interests in aesthetics, art and in humor. We have a tendency to overuse the term'inspiration', but that I can not produce a much better way to describe the impact that he's had on showing me how blessed I am to be in this profession."


But despite his extreme upbringing, there are facets of Armstrong's unconventional lifestyle which are traditional.


While I call him Berlin, the odd background noises prove to be the end result of his capacity to run a telephone interview and make chicken soup in precisely the exact same moment. "I am only making sure that no culinary tragedy occurs under my opinion," he states. "I am a really ambitious cook"

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