Cameron Armstrong (he/him/his)

Cameron Armstrong is an M.A student in Music Education with a research focus is in social justice pedagogies, creativity, and digital technologies. He is also a GPSS senator for the School of Music and a proud member of the current MAYV (Music Alive in Yakima Valley) Project.

His research interests have been defined by the coalescence of a decades worth of experiences  as a composer, performer and educator. As a composer, he spent years working for Seattle-based dance and theater companies, exploring art music in an interdisciplinary context, and premiering  new works at venues such as On the Boards, The Cornish Playhouse and Velocity Dance Center. As a performer, he's toured nationally and internationally as a folk singer and jazz guitarist with Seattle-based groups Modern Bygones, Honeysuckle Rye and Sebastian and the Deep Blue among others. As an educator he has performed and taught classes and workshops at public and private schools and regional festivals like NW Wintergrass and the Port Townsend Acoustic Blues Festival. Further, he spent 4 years working in the non-profit community arts world, helping cultivate a non-profit music education program in south Seattle called the Rhapsody Project,  where he assisted in developing curriculum, scholarship programs, an instrument library, a concert series and community jam sessions, all under the mission of "building community through the gospel of American roots music." 

B.M, Music Composition, Cornish College of the Arts, 2013

M.A, Music Education, University of Washington, 2021