The Albers sisters have been captivating audiences since they started their musical training at age two.
News from Peru
Dec 31, 2007
by Julie Albers, Laura Albers, Rebecca Albers, Beth Stanley
The Albers sisters have been captivating audiences since they started their musical training at age two.
December 31, 2007, ASJ 36.1
Topics: Chamber Music, Interview, Suzuki Graduates
Previously printed in American Suzuki Journal 36.1. Reprinted with permission. Copyright © 2007 Suzuki Association of the Americas, Inc.
Julie Albers made her major orchestral debut with the Cleveland Orchestra in 1998 and has performed in recital and with orchestras in the US, Europe, Korea, Taiwan and New Zealand. In North America, Miss Albers has performed with many important orchestras and ensembles. Her 2009–2010 engagements included performances with the Florida Orchestra and the Utah, Vancouver, San Diego, Edmonton, Memphis, Syracuse, West Virginia, Santa Rosa, Brevard and Fairfax Symphony Orchestras. She also performs in recital at the University of Wyoming, Laramie.
In addition to solo performances, Miss Albers regularly participates in chamber music festivals around the world. 2009 marked the end of a two year residency with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Three. She is currently active with the Albers String Trio and the cello quartet CELLO. Miss Albers is also a Distinguished Artist of the McDuffie Center for Strings at Mercer University.
October 2005 marked the release of Miss Albers’ debut album on the Artek label. This disc includes works by Rachmaninoff, Beethoven, Schumann, Massenet, and Piatagorsky. Julie Albers performs on a N.F. Vuillaume cello made in 1872 and makes her home in New York City with her husband, Bourbon, and their dog, Dozer.
Laura Albers is the Associate Concertmaster of the San Francisco Opera Orchestra and the violinist for the Albers Trio, a string trio with sisters Julie and Rebecca. Laura was raised with the Suzuki method, first studying with her mom, Ellie LeRoux then with James Maurer at the University of Denver. She received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in music from the Cleveland Institute of Music and The Juilliard School, where she studied with Donald Weilerstein and Ronald Copes. In Cleveland, she worked extensively with the Cavani Quartet and Peter Salaff in the Intensive Quartet Seminar, and as an assistant music therapist in the Cleveland University Hospitals. In NYC, she performed with the Wild Ginger Philharmonic and taught Suzuki violin at the Diller-Quaile School of Music. She spent several summers performing in the mansions of Newport, RI with the Newport Music Festival and now returns to her native Colorado yearly, where she appears as a featured artist in the Strings Music Festival. Ms. Albers has been featured on the Bayerischer Rundfunk in Munich with cellist Julie Albers and Israeli National Radio with pianist Batia Murvitz. She spends the Opera’s off-season traveling, baking with her two sons, and racing as an age group triathlete.
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