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Doug Armstrong is
the Director of Bands for Mountain View High School.
Originally from Richmond, Virginia, he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music from Virginia Tech
and completed a Master of Arts degree in Music with emphasis in Conducting from Radford University.
Mr. Armstrong has been with the Stafford County Public Schools for
fourteen years. Before opening the band program at Mountain View, he spent a year working as assistant to the band directors at A. G. Wright and Gayle Middle Schools. Prior to that, he served as the Director of Bands at Brooke Point High School for eight years
where the band program earned a reputation for consistent Superior performance.
Before coming to Stafford County, Mr. Armstrong taught in Montgomery and Washington Counties in southwest Virginia and served for one year in the Virginia Beach City Schools.
Mr. Armstrong holds membership and leadership positions in numerous professional
music and music education organizations including MENC, VMEA, VBODA, The National Band Association and Phi Beta Mu International Bandmaster's Fraternity.
He currently serves as President of the Virginia Band and
Orchestra Directors Association and remains an active performer on Euphonium as a member of the Fairfax Wind Symphony.
Honors include listings in
Who’s Who in America, Who's Who in American Education and
five consecutive listings in Who’s Who Among
America’s Teachers. He has been awarded the Virginia
Lottery's Excellence in Education Award and has been granted
the honorary title of Kentucky Colonel by the Governor of the
Commonwealth of Kentucky.
In 2002, Mr. Armstrong was named Brooke Point High School Teacher of the Year.
He was also selected as the Stafford County Teacher of the Year and was awarded the Washington Post’s
Agnes Meyer Outstanding Teacher Award during that same year.
In 2003, Mr. Armstrong was selected as the Commonwealth
of Virginia’s Teacher of the Year and is the recipient of a joint
resolution by the House of Delegates and Senate of Virginia for
excellence in education.
In January of 2010,
Mr. Armstrong was honored with selection to the Bandworld
Legion of Honor, a special award of the John Philip Sousa
Foundation.
E-mail:
armstrongdc@staffordschools.net
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