Winner of the prestigious 2010 Gilmore Young Artist Award and the 2009 Young Concert Artists International Auditions, pianist Charlie Albright concluded the 2010-11 season of debuts to critical acclaim.

The Washington Post hailed him as being “among the most gifted musicians of his generation” whose “impressive range of differently colored sounds at the keyboard was matched by overwhelming virtuosity” while “musical shape was never sacrificed to showmanship.” 

The New York Times praised his “jaw-dropping technique, intelligently wrought interpretation and virtuosity meshed with a distinctive musicality.”

Mr. Albright made his New York and Kennedy Center recital debuts on the Young Concert Artists Series and at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.

His orchestral debuts include:

• The San Francisco Symphony with conductor Alondra de la Parra
• The Seattle Symphony Orchestra with conductor Gerard Schwarz
• The Boston Pops with conductor Keith Lockhart
  

Highlights of Mr. Albright’s busy 2011-12 season include:

• A fourth concert with cellist Yo-Yo-Ma
• An appearance as soloist with the Phoenix Symphony performing Tchaikovsky’s Concerto No. 1 in B-Flat Minor and Rachmaninoff’s Op. 23
• Solo recitals at the Irving S. Gilmore International Keyboard Festival
• The Morgan Library and Museum
• The Friends of Music Concerts (NY)
• The Macomb Center for the Performing Arts (MI)
• The Palladium Theater at St. Petersburg (FL)
• Missouri State University

• Chopin - Andante Spianato and Grand Polonaise
• Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata
• Chopin Etudes Op 25
• Self Improvisations - Nessum Dorma / The Mission
•  Over the Rainbow
• Great Balls of Fire