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Adrienne Albert (born 1941) is an American composer living and working in Santa Monica, California. Although relatively new{{ safesubst:#invoke:Unsubst||date=__DATE__ |$B= [when?] }} to composition, Albert is established in the field with a 2006 NEA grant for a symphony about Homer, Alaska, completed in 2007, and various other commissions, artist in residencies, and awards. Albert's work is performed internationally, in the US, in Europe, and extends to a recentTemplate:When? set of ChineseTemplate:Where? performancesTemplate:By whom?.

Vocal performer

Albert sang with the Gregg Smith Singers in the early 1960s, performing as a contralto.[1] She later performed as a mezzo-soprano soloist.[citation needed] She collaborated with Leonard Bernstein, Philip Glass, Gunther Schuller, and Igor Stravinsky, among others. Her voice was preferred for parts written for pre-adolescent boys.[2] Igor Stravinsky is said to have referred to her as his "favorite boy alto".[citation needed] Stravinsky’s fondness for the ambiguously gendered quality of her voice was such that he used Albert as the alto soloist in the 1960 recording of his Canticum Sacrum[2] and his 1952 Cantata.[3] Ms. Albert’s vocal career began while attending UCLA. While singing with the Gregg Smith Singers, Albert sang the music of Charles Ives and was lauded for her singing of Like a Sick Eagle.[4]

she worked with Stravinsky on many occasions and recorded three more solo recordings with him, including his Four Russian Songs,[5] Cantata, and his last original composition, The Owl and the Pussycat,[6] with Robert Craft accompanying.[7]

Ms. Albert enjoyed a long working relationship with Leonard Bernstein as a singer and contractor on his celebrated recordings of his Mass (the premiere of which opened the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC), and West Side Story, for which she contractedTemplate:What? the Jets and Sharks, performing with Kiri Te Kanawa and José Carreras. She also sang with Barbara Hendricks at Bernstein’s 70th birthday celebration at Tanglewood under the baton of John Williams. Other solo recordings include songs of Charles Ives with the Columbia Chamber Ensemble[8][9] and Philip Glass’s opera The Photographer with Glass conducting. At Avery Fisher Hall, she performed with Gunther Schuller and the New York Philharmonic in a premiere of Schuller’s Symphonia for Four Voices and Orchestra. As a studio singer in New York and Los Angeles, Ms. Albert performed on hundreds of television and radio commercials, sang on numerous film scores, and worked with such diverse artists as Pablo Casals, Benny Golson, Dave Grusin, Leiber and Stoller, Zubin Mehta, Frank Sinatra, and Michael Tilson Thomas.

Conductor

From her vocal work in the 1960s and '70s, Albert made a transition to the quite different work of conducting and arranging in the 1980s. This was an important developmental step away from the mind of the soloist and into a role of responsibility for every element of ensemble performance, with choirs, chamber groups, and small orchestrasTemplate:Which?.

Albert has also worked as an agent managing child actors, which she starting in the 1980s.[10]

Composer

A graduate of UCLA in musicTemplate:When? and the child of European trained professional violinistsTemplate:Who?, Adrienne began studying the piano at age 4 and composition at age 10. Her piano teachers included Jacob Gimpel and Aube Tzerko in Los Angeles and Joanna Graudan at the Aspen Music School. Composition studies with Leonard Stein preceded a lengthy hiatus performing other people's music. Returning to Los Angeles after years of working in New York, she returned to UCLA and received her Certificate in Film Scoring in 1994, determined to write both instrumental and vocal music for the concert stage. In the 1990s, Albert made a third significant shift in her work toward composition of original works funded through grants and commissions. She also studied composition with Stephen "Lucky" Mosko at CalArts and orchestration with Albert Harris. Since the mid-1990s her concert works have been performed throughout the United States, Europe, Thailand, Mexico, China, and South Africa. Among numerous commissions, awards and grants, Albert was the recipient of a 2006 National Endowment for the Arts grant in conjunction with the American Composers Forum for a Continental Harmony Project in Alaska. Her "An Alaskan Symphony", a work in three movements for choir and orchestra was premiered by the Kenai Peninsula Orchestra in April 2007. "Animalogy" for Woodwind Quintet[11] was a 2007 Winner of the Aeros Quintet Competition and was performed in Carnegie Hall's Zankel Hall in May 2008. She had a residency at the Ucross Foundation as Composer-In Residence in October 2007. Later commissions and premieres include chamber works for Chamber Music Palisades (2008); "Duo for Low Flutes" (2008) for Peter Sheridan, contrabass flutist; "Wind Tides" commissioned by trombonist Andrew Malloy (2008); "Pacific Serenades" (2007), and St. Bedes Episcopal Church (2007). 2009 brought a commission from the Newstead Trio as part of the grand opening of the new Pennsylvania Academy of the Arts building designed by Philip Johnson in Lancaster, PA. Adrienne toured China in the summer of 2007 with the Newstead Trio as their composer-in-residence meeting with gifted young musicians along the Silk Road. She has been the recipient of numerous Meet the Composer grants, Composer Assistance Program grants, and consecutive ASCAP Awards. Other commissions include works for the Henry Mancini Institute, at which she conducted the premiere of her orchestral work in Long Beach, CA, three choral commissions from the Gregg Smith Singers (she was composer-in-residence at the 34th Annual Adirondacks American Music Festival in the summer of 2006), a chamber work for harp titled "Fanta*Z" for Corky Hale, a piano trio commissioned for the Newstead Trio, and several orchestral works commissioned by the Los Angeles Doctors Symphony Orchestra, Ivan Shulman, Music Director. Her orchestral works "Western Suite" and "Courage" have been performed by numerous orchestras in the United States including the Virginia Symphony. Other recent chamber music commissions include a duet for soprano saxophone and guitar titled "L.A. Tango Nuevo", recorded for Centaur Records; a song cycle for noted bass-baritone, Richard Bernstein of the Metropolitan Opera; and a work for saxophone, cello, and guitar commissioned by saxophonist Doug Masek. Her works have been recorded for Centaur, Little Piper, and ABC Classics.

Selected works

Personal life

Albert's first husband was John McClure, whom she divorced in 1966.[14] Albert met the screenwriter Monte Stettin in Los Angeles, and is in a long-term partnership with him.[15]

References

  1. ↑ Emmitt, Tom and Barbara (October 18, 1961). "Heights reached by Smith Singers". Oxnard Press Courier, Oxnard, California: pp. 59. https://newspaperarchive-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/entertainment-clipping-oct-18-1961-3592616/. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Steinberg, Michael (2008) (in en). Choral Masterworks: A Listener's Guide. Oxford University Press. pp. 273. ISBN 978-0-19-534066-2. https://books.google.com/books?id=vZk6DwAAQBAJ&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&pg=PA273&dq=%22adrienne+albert%22&hl=en. 
  3. ↑ Mellers, Wilfrid (1967). "Review of Cantata 1952; Mass 1948; In Memoriam Dylan Thomas 1954, Stravinsky". The Musical Times 108 (1497): 1018–1018. doi:10.2307/952017. ISSN 0027-4666. https://www.jstor.org/stable/952017. 
  4. ↑ Palmer, Craig (April 26, 1970). "Classical Records". Star News, Pasadena, California: pp. 31. https://newspaperarchive-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/entertainment-clipping-apr-26-1970-3592625/. 
  5. ↑ Philip, Philip Leroy (September 28, 1972). "Stravinsky: an unusual collection". pp. 7. https://newspaperarchive-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/entertainment-clipping-sep-28-1972-3592609/. 
  6. ↑ Stuart, Philip (1991). Igor Stravinsky--the composer in the recording studio : a comprehensive discography. Internet Archive. New York : Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0-313-27958-4. http://archive.org/details/igorstravinskyth0000stua. 
  7. ↑ Columbia Masterworks MS 6992
  8. ↑ Columbia MS 7321
  9. ↑ Henahan, Donal (11 January 1970). "Recordings". The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/1970/01/11/archives/recordings-the-marlboro-style-intimate-and-intense.html. 
  10. ↑ Hoffman, Jan (1992-01-12). "FILM; The Drama of the Solemn Child" (in en-US). The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. https://www.nytimes.com/1992/01/12/movies/film-the-drama-of-the-solemn-child.html. 
  11. ↑ Review for Animalogy
    • Bingham, Ruth (15 March 2010). "Music Review". Honolulu Advertiser; Honolulu, Hawaii [Honolulu, Hawaii]: pp. D.1. 
    • Dunham, Mike (15 August 2006). "MUSIC: New work about Peninsula debuts in Kenai concert: 'ELEMENTS': Festival performance shows musicians' potential". McClatchy - Tribune Business News; Washington [Washington]: pp. 1. 
  12. ↑ Review for Across the C's
    • Riner, Nicole (Spring 2018). "Across the C's Adrienne Albert". Flutist Quarterly 43 (3). 
  13. ↑ Fonseca-Wollheim, Corinna da (2017-08-18). "The Locrian Chamber Players Put ‘New Music’ on the Manhattan Map" (in en-US). The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/18/arts/music/locrian-chamber-players-riverside-church-jacqueline-kerrod-john-luther-adams.html. 
  14. ↑ Au, Mary (Fall 2021). "Meet Acme Honoree Adrienne Albert". Triangle of Mu Phi Epsilon 115 (3): 6–8. 
  15. ↑ D'Antonio, Michael (9 April 2000). "Unmarital Bliss; A Quiet Social Revolution Finds Millions of Couples Choosing Not to Marry, Sending Marriage Rates to a New Low. Longtime Partners Say Relationships That Stand on Their Own Are Stronger". Los Angeles Times; Los Angeles, Calif. [Los Angeles, Calif]: pp. [1],[2]. 

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