Albert Newberry has been studying classical piano for eight years with Teresa Ehrlich at the Renaissance Music Academy and jazz improvisations for three years with John Salmon at University of North Carolina, Greensboro. Newberry's original composition, Tritone Blues, was one of the winners of the 2013 Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composer Awards. He placed first in jazz performance for the high school level at the University of West Virginia's Intersection of Jazz and Classical Music Piano Festival and Competition in 2014. He was also a finalist in classical performance, both at the University of West Virginia and Old Dominion University in the Harold Protsman Classical Period Piano Competition in 2014. Newberry won first place in the 2016 Rebecca Orr Memorial Piano Festival and Scholarship Competition at Radford University. He plans to pursue a career in both classical and jazz piano studies.
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Location:	P. Buckley Moss Art Gallery, 223 Gilbert Street, Blacksburg
Price:	Free
Sponsor:	Moss Arts Center
Contact:	Susan Bland subland@vt.edu 5402311986
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