Steve Armstrong
Steve Armstrong founded a brick-and-mortar music school, Advantage Music Academy in 2018 in Perth, Western Australia, where he leads a team of 10 teachers, including piano, violin, guitar and voice teachers. In 2023, the Academy reached a student body of 300 which includes one-to-one instrumental lessons and an original early-years program, Early Starters Music and Movement and Head Start Piano, which has been featured on the Integrated Music Teaching podcast.
Steve has over 20 years of teaching experience in the studio and the tertiary sector, in which he was a multi-award-winning lecturer of musicology. Steve holds a bachelorโs degree in classical piano with first-class honours (UWA), two postgraduate graduate degrees in educational leadership (ECU) and one in educational design (MON). His reputation for excellence and leadership in pedagogy led to an invitation to join the Australian Music Examination Board as a piano examiner in 2023. Steve has a passion for mentoring teachers in the application of education research and practice to maximise student learning outcomes and mentoring studio owners, particularly in the areas of recruitment and policy.