Education
Kit Armstrong was born into a non-musical family. He displayed remarkable gifts for science, languages and mathematics. At the age of 5, and without access to a piano, he taught himself music composition by reading an abridged encyclopaedia. He subsequently started formal piano and composition studies with Mark Sullivan and Michael Martin (1997 – 2001).
Armstrong has always pursued music and academic education in parallel. He attended Garden Grove Christian School (1997 - 1998), Anaheim Discovery Christian School (1998 – 1999), Los Alamitos High School and Orange County High School of the Arts (1999 – 2001). While in high school, he studied physics at California State University at Long Beach and music composition at Chapman University.
At the age of 9, Armstrong became a full-time undergraduate student at Utah State University studying biology, physics, mathematics as well as music (2001 – 2002). In 2003, Armstrong enrolled at the Curtis Institute of Music studying piano with Eleanor Sokoloff and Claude Frank, while simultaneously taking courses in chemistry and mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania. In 2004, Armstrong moved to London to continue his music education at the Royal Academy of Music studying piano with Benjamin Kaplan and composition with Paul Patterson, Christopher Brown and Gary Carpenter. In parallel, he studied pure mathematics at the Imperial College, London (2004 – 2008).
Armstrong received Bachelor of Music degree with First Class Honours from Royal Academy of Music, University of London in performance in 2008 and Master of Science degree with honours from Pierre and Marie Curie University, Paris in mathematics in 2012.
Armstrong has studied regularly with Alfred Brendel since 2005.
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