Stephen Albert

Stephen Albert (6 February 1941 – 27 December 1992) was an American composer.

Biography

Born in New York City, Albert began his musical training on the piano, French horn, and trumpet as a youngster. He first studied composition at the age of 15 with Elie Siegmeister, and enrolled two years later at the Eastman School of Music, where he studied with Bernard Rogers. Following composition lessons in Stockholm with Karl-Birger Blomdahl, Albert studied with Joseph Castaldo at the Philadelphia Musical Academy (BM 1962); in 1963 he worked with George Rochberg at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1965 he won a Rome Fellowship to study in Rome at the American Academy.

From 1985 to 1988 he worked as the Seattle Symphony's composer-in-residence.

His notable students included Daniel Asia.

Albert was killed in an automobile accident on Cape Cod on December 27, 1992.

Awards and honors

Stephen Albert won the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for Music for his Symphony No. 1, RiverRun. He posthumously won a Grammy Award in 1995 in the Best Classical Contemporary Composition category for his Cello Concerto as performed by Yo-Yo Ma in a 1990 recording with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, conducted by David Zinman.

Stephen Albert (actor)

Stephen "Baamba" Albert is an Indigenous Australian actor and singer. He starred in the musicals Bran Nue Dae and Corrugation Road.

Albert was born in Broome. His professional career begun in 1968 with the band Broome Beats. His performance career includes working for Jimmy Chi in Bran Nue Dae and Corrugation Road, as the sidekick for Mary G, appeared in the SBS drama series The Circuit and presented the Bobtales TV series.

Albert has also worked as the first chairman of the National Aboriginal Education Committee and is the director of Goolarri Media.

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