The 2018 Sunday Afternoons Live concert series continues on Feb. 25 at 4 p.m., as New Canaan native Andrew Armstrong returns with an intimate salon concert in the First Congregational Church Auditorium, 108 Sound Beach Ave.
Armstrong is an internationally acclaimed concert soloist, chamber musician, and recitalist who has appeared with many orchestras in the United States, Latin America, Europe, and Asia, and played at Alice Tully Hall, Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, the Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, and Warsaw’s National Philharmonic. During his freshman year at Columbia University in 1993, he won a Jury Discretionary Award at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition and received accolades from Cliburn himself. His recordings have been praised in the American Record Guide for the “dazzling clarity and confidence” of his technique.
“Each piece in the Sunday concert will tell a story or paint a picture for the listener,” said Craig Symons, Director of Music at First Church, “starting with Beethoven’s Sonata opus 81a, in which the composer vividly depicts the parting of a dear friend in three movements titled The Farewell, The Absence, and The Return. Andrew will then perform a number of shorter pieces, like a spontaneous string of encores, with personal remarks about each piece along the way.”
Tickets are $25 and are available at the door. As with all First Music & Arts programs, school-age youth are free. For more information, visit fccog.org
