Albert Cano Smit, piano
Photo: Chris Lee
A year and half after Yellow Barn's election night concert, Albert Cano Smit returns to the Big Barn for a performance of J.S. Bach's Art of the Fugue. Smit will start the performance with an introduction to Bach's masterpiece.
Thursday, June 18 | 7:30
The Big Barn
49 Main Street, Putney, VT
$40 General Admission
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Watch an introduction to Albert Cano Smit's journey with The Art of Fugue:
About The Artist
Albert Cano Smit won first prizes at the 2019 Young Concert Artists International Auditions and the 2017 Walter W. Naumburg Piano Competition, the latter of which earned him a Carnegie Hall debut.
Notable engagements include appearances with the San Diego, Seattle, Barcelona, Albany, and Montreal Symphonies, and Las Vegas and Rochester Philharmonics. He has given recital and chamber performances across the United States at the Kennedy Center, Merkin Concert Hall, Steinway Society–The Bay Area, Bravo! Vail Festival; in France at the Wissembourg Festival and Fondation Louis Vuitton; at Germany’s Rheingau Music Festival; in Xiamen, China; and throughout Spain.
Born in Geneva, the son of a Dutch mother and Spanish father who settled in Catalonia, he left home at 9 to join the Escolania de Montserrat choir school. His serious piano studies took him to the Colburn School and to Juilliard, where he finished his artist diploma in May 2022, under the tutelage of Robert McDonald. He was awarded Juilliard’s prestigious Arthur Rubinstein Piano Prize in 2020 and is currently Iva Dee Hiatt Visiting Artist in Piano and Lecturer in Music at Smith College.