Mark Armstrong

Jazz Trumpeter and Composer/Arranger. Artistic and Music Director: National Youth Jazz Orchestra, Jazz Professor: Royal College of Music. Dad x3.

[Mark Armstrong @markatpt]

@raghard Shoggoths in disguise…

[Mark Armstrong @markatpt]

Fantastic night out @BarbicanCentre listening to Artemis and Kandace Springs tonight!

[Mark Armstrong @markatpt]

Lovely day in my FRCM robes yesterday at the RCM graduation ceremony! Congratulations to everyone there, especially making it through COVID lockdowns with such positive attitudes. #growthmindset

[Mark Armstrong @markatpt]

@mtpennycook You’ve got my vote if you commit to making this happen. I’m pretty disappointed that the Tories seem to be watering this down. Hope you win the vote though.

[Mark Armstrong @markatpt]

@gregbeardsell It looks like a load of turning “u”s…

[Mark Armstrong @markatpt]

@jemanners @BBCSingers @clareteal @conductorben @NYJOuk @QuincyDJones So pleased you’re back in business! Let’s do it again!

[Jonathan Manners @jemanners]

Happiness is doing some programming for @BBCSingers and looking towards Christmas 2023 and beyond. Talking of 🎄- strong soundtrack for the day from @BBCSingers when we collaborated with @clareteal @conductorben @NYJOuk @markatpt for some @QuincyDJones

[Mark Armstrong @markatpt]

Really pleased to read this!

[Jonathan Manners @jemanners]

Hope dawns once more. We are all overwhelmed & humbled by the continuing support for @BBCSingers from across the world. Thank you all. Here’s to this international musical gem and all who sail in it, with it and encounter it. Will be a great concert this afternoon. Keep singing x

[Mark Armstrong @markatpt]

@JohnFinnemore “Well, since you ask for a story about the perils of putting your Sul Ponticello before your slur I might be able to provide a short Divertimento…”

[Mark Armstrong @markatpt]

It was a pleasure to hear some great playing from the students yesterday, including Finn here on the trumpet!

[Simon Fairclough @snfairclough]

Brilliant to have Mark Armstrong, Artistic Director of @NYJOuk, at @Cambridge_Uni yesterday to give a masterclass on musical directing!

[James Welburn @jameswelburnUK]

Great to workshop an arrangement by @FloriMaunders of a @ChickCorea piece with @NYJOuk and @markatpt ahead of their residency at Ronnie Scott’s later this month #jazz

[Mark Armstrong @markatpt]

@JAGS_MusicDept It was great to work with @daisydrums at Ronnie Scott’s recently and brilliant she was willing to come and adjudicate for Eli!

[Mark Armstrong @markatpt]

@JAGS_MusicDept And well organised by Head of Academic Music my talented wife @elinorcmusic wish I could have seen my daughter and nieces performing. It’s a family affair!

[Mark Armstrong @markatpt]

@johnredwood As opposed to our appalling management of health and education in England? Which is beginning to feel like a ruse to sell it all off to some random US health provider who has taken enough of your colleagues out to lunch?

[Deborah Taffler @daztaff]

@NYJOuk @jewishmusicUK @Jw3nni what a spectacular afternoon if music - a room full of extraordinary talent and inspirational arrangers/conductors - thank you all so much!

[Mark Armstrong @markatpt]

@johnredwood We could still have a viable and green(ish) coal industry if it hadn’t been run down by the Tories in the 1980s along with our other primary industries to “smash the unions”. Coal arrived from Brazil as free ballast in empty ships. No attempt to protect our own by the Tories!

[Mark Armstrong @markatpt]

Celebrating nearly Krampusnacht with delicious Nigel Slater recipes from Christmas Chronicles: Pork Chop & Spinach Polenta, spicy chocolate cake… @ Blackheath, London https://t.co/7iTHD6gan0

[Mark Armstrong @markatpt]

When #NYJO do a function we like to go large! Great fun playing for #Salesforce this morning! @ ExCeL London https://t.co/xnIiMDGpHV

[Mark Armstrong @markatpt]

@ChallonersHead @DCGSMusic @DCHS_Music @NYJOuk Love this…had such a great time doing music @DCGSMusic and glad to see the tradition is continuing. Music isso vital and inspirational for everyone. Have a fantastic concert!

[David Atkinson @ChallonersHead]

Tonight we have the Joint Schools concert - @DCGSMusic and @DCHS_Music combined! Looking forward to taking part in the Fauré Requiem later. My copy has good ancestry - used by @markatpt, now musical director of @NYJOuk!