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TRAINING
• 2007 – : Colburn School – Bachelor of Music with
Robert Lipsett
• 2005-2007: Walnut Hill School for the Arts – High
School Diploma
with Donald Weilerstein PRIZES AND AWARDS
• 2009: Young artist awards, Downey and Culver City
Symphony Orchestras
• 2008: Corpus Christi International
Competition for Piano and Strings –
3rd Prize
• 2007: Boston Symphony Orchestra
Concerto Competition – 1st Prize
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BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
Nigel Armstrong has performed with
the Boston Pops, Berkeley Symphony, Bozeman Symphony
Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra, and
Reno Philharmonic, among others. He is currently the
concertmaster of both the Colburn Orchestra and the
American Youth Symphony. Over the past few summers, he
has been a fellow of the Aspen Music Festival and the
Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara.
QUARTER FINALS
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH * Sonate pour violon seul n° 2 en
la mineur / in A minor, BWV 1003: Grave & Fugue
CLAUDE DEBUSSY * Sonate en sol mineur / in G minor: II.
Intermède- III. Allegro vivo
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART * Sonate en si bémol majeur / in
B flat major, K. 454
NICCOLÒ PAGANINI * Caprice n° 5 en la mineur / in A
minor – Caprice n° 17 en mi bémol majeur / in E flat
major, opus 1
KELLY-MARIE MURPHY * One for Solitude
SEMI-FINALS
JOHANNES BRAHMS * Sonate n° 3 en ré mineur / in D minor,
opus 108
FRITZ KREISLER * Récitatif et Scherzo-Caprice
ALEXANDER MUELLENBACH * Capriccio per Niccolò Paganini
MAURICE RAVEL * Tzigane
CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS * Introduction et Rondo capriccioso,
opus 28
FINALS
JEAN SIBELIUS * Concerto en ré mineur / in D minor, opus
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