Winner of both the coveted 2010 Gilmore Young Artist Award and the 2009 Young Concert Artists International Auditions, 21-year-old pianist Charlie Albright makes his recital debuts this season in New York and Washington, DC in the Young Concert Artists Series.  He also makes his debuts with the San Francisco Symphony and conductor Alondra de la Parra, performing Ellington's New World A-Comin', with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra and conductor Gerard Schwarz, performing Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37, and with the Longwood Symphony Orchestra and conductor Lawrence Isaacson, performing Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No. 2. 

Mr. Albright appears in the Irving S. Gilmore Rising Stars Series, makes his debut at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, and performs recitals at Patrons for Young Artists, the Brownville Concert Series, Longwood Gardens, Music for Youth, the Hudson Valley Music Club, Fox Hill Village, the Buffalo Chamber Music Society, the University of Georgia in Athens, Port Washington Library, the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, the Washington Center for the Performing Arts, and the Jewish Community Alliance of Jacksonville, in addition to educational residencies around the country.  Last season, he appeared in six concerts at the Gilmore Keyboard Festival, a concert in Paris at the Salle Cortot, and performed Mozart's Concerto in D minor as soloist with the Grand Rapids Symphony Orchestra and conductor David Lockington and the Olympia Symphony Orchestra.

Mr. Albright won the Paul A. Fish First Prize at the Young Concert Artists International Auditions as well as the Summis Auspiciis Prize, which sponsors his New York debut, 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, the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival Prize, and the Embassy Series Prize for a concert in Washington, DC.  Other awards include a Vendome Virtuoso Prize and the Elizabeth Leonskaya Special Award at the 2009 Vendome Prize International Piano Competition in Lisbon, Portugal.  Mr. Albright 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 IIYM International Competition in Lawrence, Kansas. 

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.

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