Albert Cano Smit

BIOGRAPHY

Studied at the Montserrat Abbey School and the Chetham’s School of Music with Marta Karbownicka, Murray McLachlan, and Graham Caskie. Currently he studies with Robert McDonald at the Juilliard School of Music in New York. He has also benefited from major artistic advice by Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Ferenc Rados, Stephen Hough, Kevin Kenner, Ilya Itin, Christian Blackshaw, Sergei Babayan and Richard Goode. An alumn of the Verbier Festival Academy.

A first prize winner at the Walter Naumburg Piano Competition (2017). A finalist and a special prize winner at the Concours Musical International de Montreal (2017). A laureate of numerous piano competitions such as the Eugenia Verdet International Piano Competition (Barcelona, 2015), the Beethoven Piano Society of Europe Junior Intercollegiate Competition (2014) and many others.