Nigel earned his bachelor’s degree from The Colburn School where he was a student of the famed Robert Lipsett. Nigel grew up in Sonoma, California and was appreciated as a prodigy from an early age. Armstrong’s passion he also enjoys exploring different traditions of musical expression such as jazz, fiddle and tango. He also appeared on NPR’s acclaimed radio program “From the Top.” Armstrong was profiled in the cover story of the January/February issue of Teen Strings in 2007. In Moscow in 2011, Nigel won Best Performance of the Commissioned Work by John Corigliano with Stomp and was the only American finalist in the Tchaikovsky International Violin Competition. Nigel also took first place in the Boston Symphony Orchestra concerto competition. Nigel won the Premio Tango prize at the first international violin competition in Buenos Aires, and the Ole Bull and Nordheim awards in Oslo. After recording the Korngold concerto on this album, Sir Neville and Nigel gave three more performances of the work with orchestras in Europe. He served as concertmaster for the American Youth Symphony and The Colburn Orchestra when he was a student in Los Angeles.Īs a soloist, Nigel remains a personal favorite of Sir Neville Marriner, who looks forward to his next performances with Nigel. Nigel made his orchestra debut in 2002 as a soloist with the Baroque Sinfonia and has since performed concertos with the symphony orchestras in Dusseldorf, Oslo, Boston, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and Buenos Aires among others.
#NIGEL BACH MOVIE#
We watched this movie on streaming at Amazon’s Prime Video (one of the few streaming sites that has a nice selection of horror movies for us Norwegians…as compared to for example Netflix, where the “selection” for non-US customers is so limited that it sucks sweaty donkey balls).Hailed as “an astonishing talent, with exquisite technique”, Nigel Armstrong was born in Sonoma, California where he began playing the violin at the age of five.
#NIGEL BACH SERIES#
Bad Ben has turned into a series of a total of 7 movies (so far). It is also kinda fascinating and somewhat inspiring that the entire movie was made as a one-man-show, and part of the entertainment value comes from keeping this in mind.īad Ben is not a horror movie that will be appreciated by everyone, but for those of us that watch horror movies on a regular basis and has trudged through a ton of various indie horror, it’s easy to see why Nigel Bach’s Bad Ben found a fan base. The movie does have a tone of humor in it, and it manages to keep you captivated throughout the protagonist’s exploration and experiences. And since nearly every single found footage horror movie includes a cast with teens/young people, it was actually a bit refreshing to see a grumpy, middle-aged man who is more pissed off at the goings-on than afraid of it. But to our surprise, we found that it’s actually quite decently made for what it is. Now, an idea like this sounds like the perfect recipe for a disaster of a movie, which could only be appreciated by close friends and family. Filmed with an iPhone and the rest consisting of security camera “footage”, with a budget of only $300. And it kind of feels like Nigel Bach once joined in a discussion about this topic, simply said “Hold my beer”, and went and made a found-footage movie in his own home with himself being the only person involved. While the majority of these movies have a very limited cast and budget, they still manage to (sometimes) turn out as quite decent films.
#NIGEL BACH SOFTWARE#
With “found footage” horror movies being all over the place these days, it feels like everyone with a camera and some video-editing software can make their own addition to the genre. At first he’s convinced that people are breaking into the house…but soon, he realizes that he might be dealing with something paranormal.īad Ben is an odd little horror film. After residing in the house for a short while, however, he notices strange happenings, and decides to set up a bunch of surveillance cameras both inside and outside. With intentions of “flipping” it (a term for buying a house and selling it later for a profit) he goes through the house while filming the entire process with his iPhone. Tom Riley has just bought a house at a price that is way below market value.