Eugene Albulescu, Piano

Award-winning pianist Eugene Albulescu is a performer who combines a blazing technique with the artistic integrity and originality to express musical emotions at their most personal level. His emergence on the international scene came in 1994, when his debut recording (Albulescu Plays Liszt, MANU1446) earned him the Grand Prix du Disque Liszt, awarded for the best Liszt recording of the year, adding Albulescu’s name to that of legendary recipients such as Horowitz and Brendel. Since then, Mr. Albulescu has maintained a successful career in the United States and abroad.

Noted New York Times critic Harold Schonberg praised Albulescu in the American Record Guide, for his “infallible fingers of steel”, declaring that “nothing, anywhere has any terrors for him”. Albulescu performed in New York at BargeMusic in 1996, and later gave his Carnegie Hall debut in the Stern Auditorium in 2001, performing the Liszt Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Orchestra of St Peters. He gained national recognition in the US with broadcasts on several classical stations, as well as on NPR’s Performance Today. His outreach in over 100 US high schools has been significant, and his program “Inside the Piano” linking technology and creativity earned him coverage from the major media, including articles in the Washington Post, Philadelphia Enquirer, as well as the cover of Clavier Magazine.

He has performed and recorded on four continents, and was a founding member of the highly acclaimed Turnovsky Trio of New Zealand. His current group, Trio Lipatti, won critical acclaim for their debut performance in New York City and is poised to become a major recording and touring group.

Albulescu started his piano studies in Romania at age 6, at the Enescu Music School in Bucharest. His family moved to New Zealand in 1984 to escape Romania’s Communist regime. He completed his musical studies at Indiana University where, at 19, he was the youngest person ever to teach as an assistant instructor. Mr. Albulescu currently serves on the music faculty at Lehigh University in Bethlehem PA.