Michael's adventures...: 2013

Tuesday, October 1, 2013

Sunday Concert Series at the Gardner Museum/Calderwood Hall

I've enjoyed the opportunity once again to experience a series of wonderful chamber music concerts performed in Calderwood Hall / Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
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Most recently :
September 29th

Charlie Parker Albright: piano

This amazingly talented young pianist delighted a sold out concert hall with selections form Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828)

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Born in Centralia, Washington , Mr. Albright began piano lessons at he age of three. Mr. Albright earned an Associate of Science degree at Centralia College while he was also in high school, and was the first classical pianist accepted to the new Harvard College/New England Conservatory joint program, completing his Bachelor's degree as a Pre-Med and Economics major at Harvard in 2011 and a Master of Music degree in Piano Performance at the New England Conservatory in 2012. He is currently in the Artist Diploma program at The Juilliard School.

Mr. Albright is a Steinway Artist.

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Charlie Albright: a pianist. According to the biography on his website, Albright, from Centralia, Washington, an established classical pianist who became the first person on that instrument accepted into the Harvard College-New England Conservatory joint-degree program, which was initiated in 2004. He concentrated in economics and completed his pre-med requirements as an undergraduate, and earned a master of music in piano performance at the conservatory in 2012. He is now in the two-year, post-master’s artist diploma program at the Juilliard School. His performances of works by Chopin and Janácek, and links to a debut CD, are available at his website.

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The Boston Musical Intelligencer wrote of Charlie's second of three Schubert Cycle concerts at the Gardner Museum, that "Albright has the requisite chops of a competition winner, but the beauty, sensitivity, and taste of a mature artist."
"His Schubert was ravishing, imaginative, poetic -- full of poignancy and lyricism. It would seem Albright is a born Schubert player, whose taste is simply impeccable."
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I couldn't agree more !

BRAVO

I'll see you next in November!