Adrienne Albert

Composer Adrienne Albert studied piano as a child with Jakob Gimpel and Aube Tzerko and studied composition with Leonard Stein and Saul Kaplan. Albert, however, was diverted into performance, beginning as a soprano with the Gregg Smith Singers, a group of which she was a member for many years. The fine and unusual qualities of her voice were noted by composer Igor Stravinsky, who referred to Albert as "my favorite boy soprano". He utilized her voice for several of his final recordings including the 1966 recording of his Mass and his setting of Edward Lear's poem The Owl and th...