21-year-old pianist Charlie Albright won the Paul A. Fish First Prize in the 2009 Young Concert Artists International Auditions, where he was also awarded the Ronald A. Asherson Prize, the John Browning Prize, the Sander Buchman Prize, the Ruth Laredo Award, and four performance prizes: the Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival Prize, the Friends of Music Concerts Prize for an engagement in Sleepy Hollow (NY), the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival Prize, and the Embassy Series Prize for a concert in Washington, DC.  The Young Concert Artists Series will present his New York debut and his Washington, DC debut at the Kennedy Center.

During the 2009-10 season, Mr. Albright appears with cellist Yo-Yo Ma at Memorial Church (MA) and at Western Washington University, in Boston at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, at the Gilmore Keyboard Festival in Kalamazoo, MI, and in two concerts in Paris: at the Salle Cortot and at the Automobile Club de France.  He also performs as concerto soloist with the Grand Rapids (MI) and Olympia (WA) symphony orchestras.

Mr. Albright won a Vendome Virtuoso Prize and the Elizabeth Leonskaya Special Award at the 2009 Vendome Prize International Piano Competition in Lisbon, Portugal.  He won the 2008 Harvard Bach Society Orchestra’s competition to perform the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto, Third Prize as the youngest competitor at the 2007 Hilton Head International Piano Competition, and First Prizes in the 2006 Eastman Piano Competition, the 2006 Stecher and Horowitz Foundation’s New York Piano Competition and the 2005 University of Kansas Piano Competition. 

At the age of 18, Mr. Albright performed with cellist Yo-Yo Ma at a ceremony at which Senator Ted Kennedy received an honorary degree from Harvard University, and again performed with Mr. Ma in a program commemorating the 60^th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, featuring Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison.  He has given concerto performances with the Seattle Philharmonic and the Olympia, Port Angeles, and Northwest Wind symphonies in Washington State.

Born in Centralia, Washington, Mr. Albright began piano lessons at the age of three.  He has studied with Nancy Adsit and also worked with Randolph Hokanson, Robert Levin, Leonard Richter, Russell Sherman, and Jack Winerock.  He has participated in master classes with Richard Goode, Leif Ove Andsnes and Abbey Simon.  Mr. Albright earned an Associate of Science degree at Centralia College while he was also in high school, and is currently pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Economics at Harvard University, and a Master of Music degree in Piano Performance at the New England Conservatory of Music, with Wha-Kyung Byun. 

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