Back by popular demand, pianist Albert Cano Smit returns for an encore performance May 21 through 24 for the Steinway Society – The Bay Area’s Home Concert Hall virtual series.
The concert includes a one-hour unique performance—not available elsewhere on the Internet. Tickets are $20 per household and the performance will be available during a four-day performance window, 24 hours per day. Patrons can view the recording as many times as they’d like during that period. A recorded pre-concert lecture by Bay Area classical music expert Dr. Gary Lemco will also be available for viewers to watch at their leisure.
Twenty-four-year-old 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. In addition to winning the Naumburg Foundation First Prize in 2017, Albert won First Prize in the Young Concert Artists International Auditions in 2019. 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.