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Join my family and I as we travel around the globe discovering other cultures and musical sounds, and to my stage where the concert violin is splashed with world beat flavour & transformed into a theatrical tale. Read my personal blog sharing our travel, my music and more. Listen to my music, watch my videos, study with me and join me for the ride! Enjoy exploring! 

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Dear friends, The song “Trapeze” is a fun little ode to my days performing in Istanbul, where I had the freedom to experiment with my show. I’d often start the show atop a trapeze, then come down and roam the room and the podium while everyone sat at dinner tables, performing right among them for […]

Trapeze- The New Single!

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Hey friends! Here’s a little bit of my journey to Calgary from Kelowna with our family to perform with the Calgary Civic Symphony as a support act for the Pavlo Show! It’s such an honour to perform with a full symphony, and this time especially as it was the first time I was able to […]

Road trip British Columbia to Alberta to perform with the Civic Symphony!

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Dear friends & fans, After much excitement about returning to the stage post Covid, my recovery from injuries sustained from a major car accident last September have prevented me from performing for longer than 15 minutes at a time. My recovery has plateaued and I have so far been unable to return to my usual […]

Performances on hold due to injuries

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A peaceful and calm song by Debussy… one of my favourites, filmed at Phantom Creek Estate Winery in Oliver, British Columbia- one of the most beautiful wineries I have had the pleasure of visiting with a beautiful peaceful song. Oliver is known as the wine capital of Canada! It really was one of the most […]

Beau Soir @ Phantom Creek Estate Winery

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Hello friends! Here’s a little snapshot of a fun weekend away with the family at Sun Peaks Resort filming a music video and just having a great time! Many thanks to Sun Peaks Resort for having us, thanks to Top of the Accommodation for the great stay at the Village Walk, and to Morrisseys for […]

Sun Peaks Resort Video Shoot British Columbia

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Happy Friday everyone! String changing is something I usually teach in a violin lesson, but since so many of you ask about it, and thanks to Covid we are not able to teach in person as much as before, so check out the video below! I’m using a string set by Pirastro, called Perpetual, which […]

How to change your strings, feat. Pirastro Strings

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Dear friends & fans! I am so excited to share this very first post- we are a new piano trio that formed during the pandemic- working across Canada through the pandemic, we have been arranging, writing, and preparing to launch, and we cannot wait to share more soon. We’re excited to introduce to you: BL3ND […]

BL3ND- a new Piano Trio

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LOVE DAY IS ALMOST HERE!! Well, we’re already a month into 2020 and it flew by… more restrictions but not creatively! I’m excited to share that I recorded a little love song called Walk With Me- a special piece of music with a story based on an old Irish song which dates back to the […]

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Award Winning Violinist, Composer, World traveller Sophie Armstrong is also a mother of three young children, a wife, educator, author, performer, humanitarian with a passion for living! Sophie has travelled the globe with her music career, and shares her story and her faith with her global audience, inspiring audiences to feel. 

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