Helen Armstrong, Violin
"She fascinated the public with dazzling technique, passionate
style...acrobatic virtuosity and impetuous lyrical elan..."
                                                                                     - Corriere Dell'Adda

Founder and Artistic Director of Armstrong Chamber Concerts, Inc., which includes series in Greenwich and New Milford, CT as well as New York City, is an international recitalist, soloist and chamber musician. A graduate of The Juilliard School, where she studied with Dorothy DeLay and Ivan Galamian, Ms. Armstrong made her Lincoln Center debut in 1976. and was praised by a New York critic as a "total virtuoso, a true aristocrat of the violin." She has performed with such orchestras as the Boston Pops, the Indianapolis Symphony, the New Polish Philharmonic and with the Martha Graham Dance Company. She has been featured soloist with Skitch Henderson and toured North America, Europe, and Asia as a recitalist. Meyer Kupferman and Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Wernick have written works specifically for her. She was a prize winner in the Tibor Varga International Violin Competition in Switzerland and has received awards from the Society of American Musicians and Outstanding Artists of Illinois. Ms. Armstrong is listed in "Who's Who in the East", "Who's Who in American Women", "Outstanding Young Women of America" and "Who's Who in Entertainment". Ms. Armstrong continues an active concert career here and abroad. She has recorded on the Musical Heritage, Elysium and CRS labels. Reflections, on Elysium label and the newest CD, Illusions, on CRS, which has just been released are now available. Her violin is a J.B. Guadagnini, dated 1760.