Folk Bands and Artists
Callum Armstrong
https://callumarmstrong.co.uk/about-me
Callum Armstrong is an innovative piper whose questing approach to the hitherto unexplored acoustic possibilities of the smallpipe is taking the instrument into new musical areas.
Some of Callum’s recent projects have been to develop a polyphonic technique for double smallpipes, collaborating with pipe maker Julian Goodacre to develop a chanter with 3 octaves worth of range and developing reeds and music for the ancient greek ‘Louvre’ aulos.
Callum graduated from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in 2014, where he won the ‘Beryl Maggs’ Prize for recorder playing 3 years in a row as well as winning the Silver Medal in 2014.
Callum has played as a soloist with the London Philharmonic orchestra, as well as appearing in Steven Spielberg’s film Warhorse as the piper. In 2014 he won ‘Le Son Continu’ solo piping competition and returned in 2015 to win the ‘Petite Formation prize’ with his band the Savage Prunes.
