Artist description ALBERT FRANTZ, born in 1974 in Philadelphia, began playing the piano at the age of seventeen, at which time his sudden discovery of classical music created a limitless passion that forever changed his life. Now living in Vienna, Austria, where he came in 1998 as a Fulbright Scholar and the student of world-renowned pianist and pedagogue Paul Badura-Skoda, Frantz is boldly beginning his professional career. He has committed to championing the music of lesser-known and contemporary composers as well as the standard classics, and is fast developing an international reputation for his technical and intellectual daring in the obsessive virtuoso works of Romantic pianist-composers such as Alkan and Godowsky. He has been invited to record his debut CD by Americus Records, for which he will collaborate with Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer William Bolcom in releasing world premiere recordings of Bolcom's piano music. He attended Penn State University, where he abandoned his engineering studies to pursue degrees in music and philosophy (if he ever finishes that Nietzsche paper from the fall of '96...). Albert wishes to send his heartfelt thanks to the teachers who are making his career possible, most especially Dr. Steven Smith of Penn State and Paul Badura-Skoda in Vienna, with whom he has worked most extensively.

Music Style Classical

Instruments Piano

Press Reviews "An authoritative, world class pianist... will become a star before long." -- pianist and American Record Guide critic John Bell Young

Location Vienna - Austria

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