Armand Guy Qualliotine (Professor Q) was fortunate enough to have been given music lessons starting at age 7. Five years later, he bought a bass guitar and joined what then was called “a society band.” Two years later (now 14 yrs old) his guitar teacher said it’s time to get a classical guitar teacher and he was recommended to the professor of the guitar department at Hofstra University in Long Island, New York.Armand went to Hartt College of Music, graduating in 1975 with a B.M. and honored as Cum Laude. Armand continued to study at two other universities and earned three more degrees.
When asked about his further accomplishments, Armand humbly says he went on to get lots of awards and taught at several colleges and universities including: Berklee College of Music, Northeastern University, The College of the Holy Cross, Wellesley College and Brandeis University. He attended MacDowell and Composers Conference and also was a Guggenheim Foundation recipient. He was the President of the Lumen Contemporary Music Ensemble in Boston for seventeen years.
In 2014 he retired from Berklee College of Music. He had been a Traditional Harmony, Counterpoint and Composition Professor there for seventeen years and his students and peers fondly referred to him as, “Professor Q!”
