Hailed as “among the most gifted musicians of his generation” with a “dazzling natural keyboard affinity” who “made quite an impression” by The Washington Post, American pianist/composer/improviser Charlie Albright has been praised for his “jaw-dropping technique and virtuosity meshed with a distinctive musicality” by The New York Times.
This highly gifted young pianist will appear in Crookston Friday, March 22 at 7:30 p.m. His appearance here is the fourth concert of the 2018-2019 Crookston Civic Music League Entertainment
Series. The performance will take place at the Crookston High School Auditorium.
Born in Centralia, Washington, Charlie began piano lessons at the age of three. He earned an Associate of Science degree at Centralia College while he was in high school and was accepted to Harvard
College/New England Conservatory of Music joint program where he completed his Bachelor’s degree as a Pre-med and Economics major at Harvard in 2011 and his Master of Music degree in Piano Performance
at the New England Conservatory in 2012. He has recently earned his Artist Diploma from the Julliard School of Music.
Performance highlights include concerts at Alice Tully Hall, Aspen Institute, BBC Concert Orchestra, Boston Pops, Kennedy Center, Kymi Sinfonietta (Finland), Lansing Symphony, Phoenix Symphony, Victoria Symphony (Canada), and four concerts with Cellist Yo-Yo Ma, one of which was for a ceremony at which Senator Ted Kennedy received an honorary degree from Harvard. His many awards include Steinway Artist/2014 Avery Fisher Career Grant and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.
Charlie completed a highly successful 48 concert tour in the mid-west in the 2013-2014 concert season under the auspices of Allied Concert Services and returns to thrill audiences that didn’t hear him then, plus many that did.
For further information, contact Elaine Metzger at 281-2681 or Alvern Wentzel at 281-7873. Admission is by season ticket only. Anyone needing a ride to the performance should call THE BUS 281-0700.
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