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...might not guess that Albright is a consummate pianist. He hails from Centralia, a town of about 15,000 people in Washington. His piano teacher, Nancy Adsit, taught him for free...
Albright’s Web site lists a fearsome litany of international awards, from first prize at the 2006 Eastman International Young Artists Piano Competition to Best Performance of a Liszt Study in Stage I at the 2008 Sydney International Piano Competition. If he knows a song well enough to hum it, he explains, then he can play it on the piano...
...this international piano competition,” Albright remembers. “As an encore, I played my variations on Jeopardy.” Though he remembers winning these prizes, memories of his musical beginnings—at the tender age of three and a half—are fuzzy. His mother fills in the details...
...money,” Kenric Tam ’12, a joint program pianist, says. “If you go to a concert, you’ll see a lot of white--haired people.” “Even though I have done well in piano, there’s no demand for it,” Albright says. In part because of this ageing fan base, classical music is not seen as a stable career choice. “I don’t feel safe putting all my eggs in that one basket...
...what distinguishes the crème de la crème from the merely über-accomplished? It all comes down to the audition, which isn’t always guaranteed. There is even a pre-screening process for the more popular instruments, such as violin and piano. NEC aims for a class of four to five each year, according to NEC’s Dean of the College Thomas W. Novak. Novak reports 133 applications to the program this year, a bump from the usual 80-100. He attributes the school’s increased popularity to recent...