Swiss-born pianist Albert Cano Smit has been winning international competitions since age 14. In October 2019, Albert made his Carnegie Hall debut with the world premiere of Stephen Hough’s Partita for Piano–a piece commissioned for him by the Naumburg Foundation, whose First Prize he won in 2017. In 2019, he won First Prize in the Young Concert Artists International Auditions. Of his 2018 San Francisco Performances recital, a reviewer wrote, “The audience witnessed a genius at work.” His Fondation Louis Vuitton recital in early 2019 at the Frank Gehry–designed “glass cloud” in Paris was broadcast live globally. CBC Music notes that he “plays with the maturity of someone three times his age.” Smit finished his Master’s at Juilliard in 2020, and is currently in the Artist Diploma program as a student of Robert McDonald.

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