James Armstrong has performed and taught on five continents as solo artist and clinician for Yamaha, SABIAN, Vic Firth, and Latin Percussion companies, as well as a member of the internationally acclaimed MARASSA DUO, the ROBERT HOHNER PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE and several other notable artists. He has recorded on the RCA/DMP, Albany Records, Tinkle Tone, I-Town, and C.Alan record labels and is a published composer and author through Drop6 Media, Carl Fischer, Mel Bay Publications and House Panther Press. Mr. Armstrong is currently the Instructor of Percussion at Elizabethtown College and remains extremely active as a freelance percussionist in the greater Philadelphia and New York areas.