Allan Armstrong

Pianist and vocal coach Allan Armstrong is assistant professor of music in voice at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where he specializes in art song literature and opera coaching. He serves as a faculty pianist/coach at the Tel Aviv Summer Opera program. Armstrong is also the official accompanist of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions for both the Colorado/Wyoming District and the Rocky Mountain Region.

From 2017 to 2020, he was visiting assistant professor in chamber and collaborative music at the Jacobs School. He was previously a member of the applied piano faculty at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, where he directed the nationally award-winning Bravo Opera Company. He has taught on the faculty of the Sherrill Milnes Savannah Voice Festival and the International Vocal Arts Institute.

In 2005, he coached and recorded the newly revised version of Béla Bartók's Bluebeard’s Castle under the direction of the composer’s son, Peter Bartók. In 2010, Armstrong was a featured solo pianist in a recital of the complete solo piano works of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Del Tredici at New York University Steinhardt.

In 2019, he was chosen to participate in the acclaimed National Association of Teachers of Singing Intern Program at the New England Conservatory. In 2021 Armstrong received the Indiana University Trustees Award, in recognition of outstanding achievements in teaching.

Armstrong earned a Doctor of Musical Arts in Collaborative Piano degree from the University of Colorado Boulder, where he studied with Alexandra Nguyen and Margaret McDonald.