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Performances > Christopher Confessore Conducts > Artist Information - Julie Albers
Julie Albers 
Christopher Confessore celebrates his thirteenth season as Music Director and Principal Conductor of the Brevard Symphony Orchestra and his fourth season as Resident Conductor of the Alabama Symphony Orchestra in 2007-08. During his tenure in Brevard, the orchestra has performed a broad repertoire – including the world premieres of seven compositions commissioned by the orchestra – and enjoyed a dramatic period of artistic growth, increased attendance at all performances, and financial stability. Mr. Confessore joined the Alabama Symphony Orchestra as its Associate Conductor in 2000. His appearances on the ASO’s Masterworks series have garnered rave reviews from the Birmingham News for his “special talent for drawing the broadly lyrical out of his orchestra.” He also leads the orchestra in a wide variety of educational and outreach performances, and serves as Conductor of the Alabama Symphony POPS! Mr. Confessore’s schedule as a guest conductor has included appearances with the Houston Symphony, the Florida Orchestra, the Chattanooga Symphony Orchestra and the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra. He made his international debut in June of 2004, conducting the Sibiu Philharmonic Orchestra in Romania. During the 1999-2000 Season, Mr. Confessore served as Interim Education and Outreach Conductor of the Houston Symphony, conducting multiple performances on the orchestra’s Lollipops, Discovery, and First Concerts series, as well as other community outreach concerts. In June of 2007, he conducted eight performances on the Houston Symphony’s Sounds Like Fun! outreach series. From 1992-2000 Mr. Confessore served as Associate Conductor of the Florida West Coast Symphony in Sarasota. From 1990-1995 he served as Education Director of the Florida West Coast Symphony, administering one of the most intensive orchestral education programs in the country. Hailed by the Birmingham News as a leader with “firm vision and confidence,” Christopher Confessore has accompanied a distinguished list of artists, including Itzhak Perlman, Joshua Bell, Lang Lang, Glenn Dicterow and Carol Wincenc. As a Pops conductor, he has appeared with a diverse group of performers, including Grammy Award winners Art Garfunkel, Marvin Hamlisch, Roberta Flack, Peabo Bryson, Larry Gatlin and Nanci Griffith, and Tony Award winners Debbie Gravitte and Michael Maguire. In April of 2005, music columnist Mary Colurso of The Birmingham News remarked “Anyone who regards the symphony as stuffy and elitist hasn’t been to a SuperPops show when Confessore’s in charge. He exudes nice-guy appeal on stage, along with real warmth, a sense of humor and smarts to spare.” Mr. Confessore has studied with internationally acclaimed conductor Leonard Slatkin and has attended workshops and seminars led by Gustav Meier, Harold Farberman, and Lawrence Leighton Smith. He holds a Master of Music degree in Instrumental Conducting from the University of Southern California and the Bachelor of Music degree in Bassoon Performance from Florida State University. American cellist Julie Albers is already recognized for her superlative artistry, intense musicianship, and her charismatic, radiant performing style. She was born in 1980 to a musical family in Longmont, Colorado. She began violin studies at the age of two with her mother, switching to cello at four. She moved to Cleveland during her junior year of high school to pursue studies through the Young Artist Program at the Cleveland Institute of Music, where she studied with Richard Aaron. Miss Albers soon was awarded the Grand Prize at the XIII International Competition for Young Musicians in Douai, France, and as a result toured France as soloist with Orchestre Symphonique de Douai. Julie Albers made her major orchestral debut with the Cleveland Orchestra in 1998, and thereafter has performed in recital and with orchestras in the U.S., Europe, Korea, Taiwan and New Zealand. In 2001 she won Second Prize in Munich’s Internationalen Musikwettbewerbes der ARD, at which time she was also awarded the Wilhelm-Weichsler-Musikpreis der Stadt Osnabrück 2001. While in Germany, she recorded solo and chamber music of Kodaly for the Bavarian Radio, performances that have been heard throughout Europe. In November 2003, Miss Albers was named the first Gold Medal Laureate of South Korea’s Gyeongnam International Music Competition, winning the $25,000 Grand Prize. In America, Miss Albers has performed with the orchestras of Indianapolis, Seattle, Ann Arbor, Annapolis, Pensacola, Syracuse, Stamford, Canton, Harrisburg, San Antonio, Dayton, Rhode Island, Boulder, Evansville, and Long Island, among others. Her 2006–07 engagements include performances with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, a tour of Korea with the Munich Chamber Orchestra, the Rhode Island Philharmonic, the Roanoke Symphony, the Colorado Symphony, the Hartford Symphony, the Lansing Symphony, the Orlando Philharmonic, the Louisville Symphony, the Florida West Coast Symphony, and the Northeast Pennsylvania Philharmonic. She recently toured throughout New York state as soloist with Daniel Hege and the Syracuse Symphony. Her recent New York recital at Steinway Hall was filmed for NHK for telecast throughout Japan, China and Korea, while her Washington DC performance for the Voice of America has been seen and heard around the world. |
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