Sam Armstrong
Regards sur l'Infini Forget this Night
Sam Armstrong
pianist
 
 
“a pianist of splendid originality”
— the arts desk
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Hailed as "a major new talent" by International Piano after his Wigmore Hall recital debut, British pianist Sam Armstrong brings deeply-felt interpretive power to the solo, chamber music and vocal repertoire. He has appeared in Amsterdam's Concertgebouw, Carnegie Hall New York, Seoul Arts Center, Singapore Esplanade and the Royal Festival Hall; highlights of 2022/23 include appearances at Wigmore Hall with violinist Geneva Lewis, International Lied Festival Zeist, Concertgebouw Amsterdam and Concertgebouw Brugge with soprano Katharine Dain, the Bath Festival, Perth Concert Hall and Lammermuir Festival with violinist Irène Duval as well as appearances at several European festivals.

Sam recently won the prestigious Edison Klassiek award in the Netherlands for his CD with soprano Katharine Dain “Regards sur l’Infini”. The CD was also The Guardian’s Classical CD of the week, “recommended” by Gramophone and in the best of the year in Dutch newspapers Parool and NRC.

 
 

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Edison award for Regards sur l'Infini
Edison award for Regards sur l'Infini

I am very happy to share that my album with Katharine Dain “Regards sur l’Infini” has won the Edison award in “Het Debut” category. It is a huge honour to receive this prestigious award and we are in awe of the other winners who include Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Lise Davidsen, Sandrine Piau and Capella Amsterdam/Daniel Reuss.

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Edison nomination for Regards sur l'Infini

Katharine Dain and I are thrilled to have been nominated for the Edison Klassiek award in the debut category for our recent CD: Regards sur l’Infini. In the jury motivation explanation they described it as “a debut album that hit like a bomb.”

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The Guardian classical album of the week
The Guardian classical album of the week

The CD that I made with soprano during lockdown has been released on November 27th. We are very happy that it has been received so enthusiastically by the press and are thrilled that it has been chosen by the Guardian as classical album of the week:

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CD project

Hello! I hope everyone is safe and healthy. I am in the midst of completing a recordijng project with the soprano Katharine Dain. The project has strangely been more possible than it would have been normally, because of the time available to rehearse and explore this very challenging music. The result is “Regards sur l’Infini”, a programme of French songs by Debussy, Messiaen, Claire Delbos, Henri Dutilleux and Kaija Saariaho.

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