Peter McKenzie Armstrong
Education: Harvard College, attended ('59-61); Longy School of Music, Diploma in Performance ('67); Emerson College, BM ('68); Yale School of Music, MMA in Performance ('72), DMA on the Late Works of Ferruccio Busoni ('80); University of North Texas, post-doctoral residency in Composition and computer music ('84-85). Studies: Composition with Nicholas Van Slyck, Alexander Goehr, Thomas Clark, Phil Winsor, Larry Austin; Theory with Randall Thompson, Robert Moevs, Hall Overton, Kevin Korsyn; Piano with Gregory Tucker, Artur Balsam, Ernst Levy, Kyriena Siloti, John Kirkpatrick. Awards: New York Music Education League's Steinway Hall Piano Competition, first prize; Harvard - Dean's List; Longy - scholarships; Emerson - state scholarship; Yale - Martha Curtis Miles and Ellsworth Grumann Scholarships, Junior Fellowship, Grad. Assist. Instr. in Piano, Grad. Assist. to Curator of the Charles E. Ives Collection. Teaching (posts in reverse order): Midwestern TX State University, Assoc. Professor as first occupant of the Bolin Chair - studio piano, piano masterclass; Trinity College (CT) as Lecturer/Artist in Residence - ear training, tonal harmony, modal counterpoint; Wesleyan University CT as Visiting Instructor and Instrumental Teacher; Neighborhood Music School (New Haven), Hartford Conservatory, Ethel Walker School, Miss Porter's School, Choate Rosemary Hall - piano and ensemble; Longy School - Preparatory Theory/Solfege/Dictation. Computer Programming: At IBIDINC (a Forth-lang shop in Hartford CT) - wrote the intercommunications test suite for Coleco's Talking Cabbage Patch Kids ('85-6); At the Federal Judiciary, served from '95 as Linux Systems Administrator for the U.S. Bankruptcy Court's Connecticut Division - maintaining 3 servers, website building, coding variously in Bash/PERL/HTML; retired in 2011. Affiliations (past & present): ACMA, AMC, AGNULA, CMS, CSND, EMF, ICMA, IMSLP, J, LAD, MDSO, NMUSA, SCI, SEAMUS, SIGAPL, SMCM; Served for a season as president of the Studio of Electronic Music Inc. (SEMI), Simsbury CT. For Compositions, related Algorithms, and Performances see separate pages. * My photo on the index page here is from 1983. That score is Webern's Opus 27, before I snipped it up with another to repaste as per-phrase mirror image pairs.