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Julie
Albers
August
19, 2008
American cellist
Julie Albers is already recognized for her superlative artistry,
her charismatic and radiant performing style, and her intense
musicianship. She was born in 1980 to a musical family in Longmont,
Colorado. She began violin studies at the age of two with her
mother, switching to cello at four. She moved to Cleveland during
her junior year of high school to pursue studies through the
Young Artist Program at the Cleveland Institute of Music, where
she studied with Richard Aaron. Miss Albers soon was awarded
the Grand Prize at the XIII International Competition for Young
Musicians in Douai, France, and as a result toured France as
soloist with Orchestre Symphonique de Douai.
Julie Albers
made her major orchestral debut with the Cleveland Orchestra
in 1998, and thereafter has performed in recital and with orchestras
in the U.S., Europe, Korea, Taiwan and New Zealand. In 2001 she
won Second Prize in Munich’s Internationalen Musikwettbewerbes
der ARD, at which time she was also awarded the Wilhelm-Weichsler-Musikpreis
der Stadt Osnabruch 2001. While in Germany, she recorded solo
and chamber music of Kodaly for the Bavarian Radio, performances
that have been heard throughout Europe. In November, 2003, Miss
Albers was named the first Gold Medal Laureate of South Korea’s
Gyeongnam International Music Competition, winning the $25,000
Grand Prize.
In America,
Miss Albers has performed with many important orchestras and
ensembles. Her 2006-2007 engagements included performances with
the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and with the Munich
Chamber Orchestra, the Rhode Island Philharmonic, the Roanoke
Symphony, the Colorado Symphony, the Hartford Symphony, the Lansing
Symphony, the Orlando Philharmonic, the Louisville Symphony,
the Florida West Coast Symphony, and the Northeast Pennsylvania
Philharmonic. Her recent New York recital at Steinway Hall was
filmed for NHK for telecast throughout Japan, China and Korea,
while her Washington DC performance for the Voice of America
has been seen and heard around the world.
Future engagements
include performances at Jeffrey Kahane’s Green Music Festival
in Sonoma, California; at the Moritzburg Festival in Germany;
more concerts with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
and an immediate return to the Colorado Symphony and Syracuse
Symphony; opening the Toledo Symphony’s season, and concerts
with the Utah Symphony, Naples Philharmonic, Stockton Symphony,
Memphis Symphony, Dayton Philharmonic and Annapolis Symphony.
In addition
to solo performances, Miss Albers regularly participates in chamber
music festivals around the world. In 2006 she started a two year
residency with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Two.
She is currently active with the Albers String Trio and the cello
quartet, CELLO. Miss Albers is also on the faculty of Kean University
as a member of the Concert Artist program.
October, 2005
marked the release of Miss Albers’ debut album on the Artek
label. This disc includes works by Rachmaninoff, Beethoven, Schumann,
Massenet, and Piatagorsky. Julie Albers performs on a N.F. Vuillaume
cello made in 1872 and makes her home in New York City. |
