Richard Armstrong

Richard Armstrong is a noted English conductor particularly associated with opera. His musical education is a product of the English college chapel chorus system, where scholarships including music training are given to talented student applicants for participation in daily chapel services through the school term. Armstrong was an "organ scholar" (student organist) for the Chorus of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. After graduating he took a job on the staff of Covent Garden (London's major opera house), where he assisted in the musical preparation of operas. There he was a...