Julie Albers

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Julie Albers (* in Longmont / Colorado ) is an American cellist.

Albers had violin lessons from her mother from the age of two and switched to the cello at the age of four. She studied in the Young Artist Program of the Cleveland Institute of Music with Richard Aaron and won the Grand Prize at the thirteenth International Competition for Young Musicians in Douai and then toured France as a soloist with the Orchester Symphonique de Douai .

After her debut with the Cleveland Orchestra in 1988, she performed in recitals and with orchestras in North America, Europe, Korea, Taiwan, Australia and New Zealand. In 2001 she won second prize at the ARD International Music Competition in Munich and the Wilhelm Weichsler Music Prize from the city of Osnabrück. She recorded solo works and chamber music by Zoltán Kodály for Bayerischer Rundfunk . In 2003 she won the gold medal at the Gyeongnam International Music Competition .

From 2006 to 2009 she was a member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center . In 2014 she became principal cellist of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra . She is also a member of the Albers String Trio and the Cortona Trio and teaches at the McDuffie Center for Strings at Mercer University in Macon. On her debut album with the pianist Orion Weiss she plays works by Sergei Rachmaninow , Ludwig van Beethoven , Robert Schumann , Jules Massenet and Gregor Piatigorsky .

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SURNAME Albers, Julie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American cellist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Longmont (Colorado)