MASTER CLASS - MATT ALBERT - Free Lecture

See our Conservatory Director Matt Albert in an interactive lesson as he instructs the Conservatory Orchestra students through pieces for their upcoming performances. Master Classes help strengthen students’ ability as the master gives them advice on how to play selections, gives demonstrations and corrects technique. Master classes provide artistic stimulation for both the performer and the audience. Spectators welcome!

MATT ALBERT, Conservatory Director, violin & viola
Called “preposterously talented” by Time Out Chicago, Albert is the Director of Chamber Music and of SYZYGY at Meadows School of the Arts, Southern Methodist University. Some of his students have gone on to win prizes at the Fischoff and Coltman competitions, as well as the Aspen Brass Quintet Fellowship. He is the newly-appointed Concertmaster for the Shreveport Symphony Orchestra, beginning with the 2014-2015 season. As a founding member of eighth blackbird, he received numerous awards, including first prizes at the Naumburg, Concert Artists Guild, Coleman, and Fischoff Competitions, and three Grammy awards for their recordings on Cedille Records. He has worked with artists as diverse as Meredith Monk, Corky Siegel’s Chamber Blues, and Wilco, and his orchestral playing has included work with the Baltimore Symphony, the Florida Orchestra, the Firebird Chamber Orchestra, and the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra. His principal teachers include Kenneth Sarch, Gregory Fulkerson, Kurt Sassmannshaus, and Almita Vamos. Albert holds degrees from Oberlin College and Conservatory, the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, and Northwestern University School of Music.