About

Albert Newberry is a classical and jazz pianist and composer based in New York City.

Albert was born in 1999 in Virginia to a Russian-Armenian mother and an American father. He studied classical piano with Teresa Ehrlich at Renaissance Music Academy in Blacksburg, Virginia, music theory with Barbara Mackin at Hollins University, and jazz improvisations with John Salmon at UNC Greensboro. Albert also played xylophone, bells, and chimes for the North Cross School symphonic band until he graduated in 2017.

In 2013, he recorded his first jazz album, From the Sublime to the Ridiculous, collaborating with a drummer and a saxophonist. Nine out of the eleven tracks were Albert’s original compositions. Albert placed or was a finalist in many competitions and won such awards as the 2013 Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composer Award, the 2015 Rebecca Orr Scholarship from Radford University, and the Downbeat Magazine 2017 Outstanding Performance Award (high school level).

Albert has participated in numerous summer programs and festivals in the U.S, Italy and Armenia. He also had the privilege of working closely with such renowned musicians as Peter Serkin, Hayk Arsenayn, Alexander Braginsky, Armen Donelian, Ran Blake, and Dan Tepfer, as well as performing in such spaces as NEC's Jordan Hall and Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall. 

In the fall of 2017, Albert joined the studio of Irina Morozova at Mannes School of Music in New York City.