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The American counter-tenor, oboist and composer, Michael Albert, attended the University of Southern Maine as a Double Performance Major in oboe and voice. He also studied at the Interlochen and Longy Schools of Music. His oboe awards include the Emily K. Rand and Kotzschmar scholarships, the Maine Governor’s Award, and the Maine Bay Chamber Concerts’ Harvey Picker prize. His vocal awards include the Lillian Nordica Award, 1st place at Maine NATS, and the Bay Chamber Concerts’ Louise Meyers Vocal Award.
As an oboe soloist, Michael Albert has performed with the Maine Music Society, the Portland and Bangor Symphony Orchestras, the Harvard and Brown University Baroque Orchestras, and the North Shore Philharmonic Orchestra in Massachusetts. He has also performed chamber works at various colleges around New England including Wesleyan, Bowdoin, Bates, Colby and Dartmouth. He has also performed as an oboist in various J.S. Bach's cantatas, John Rutter’s Requiem, and Menotti’s Amahl and the Night Visitors. As an oboe soloist, he has performed Vivaldi’s Concerto in D minor, J.S. Bach’s Concerto in C minor for oboe and violin, and the Strauss' Concerto for oboe.
As a counter-tenor, Michael Albert has performed throughout New England as a soloist in George Frideric Handel’s Judas Maccabeus and Messiah, J.S. Bach’s Mass in B minor (BWV 232), Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana, Carissimi’s Jephthe and Giovanni Battista Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater.
As a composer, Michael Albert co-composed film scores for the PBS documentaries Sweet Ambition and The Polygamist’s Daughter. Both were pre-nominated for a Grammy Award. He currently performs with Initial Ascent (an original composition improve trio), Port City Winds Woodwind Quartet, the Rogues of Arcadia early music ensemble, Portland Pro Musica, the Southern Maine String Quartet, and performs chant and chant-based polyphony with the Schola Cantorum of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Portland, Maine. He taches at Colby College and currently lives in Auburn, Maine. |
