Albert Newberry is a pianist, composer, teacher, and filmmaker from Bland, Virginia. He holds a Bachelor’s of Music in Piano Performance from Mannes School of Music and a Master’s in Music Theory from Indiana University, where he also taught for two years. He is equally comfortable playing classical, jazz, bluegrass, gospel, rock, pop, and has performed in such renowned venues as Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center. Albert has won numerous awards including an ASCAP Young Jazz Composers Award, Downbeat Magazine Outstanding Performance Award, and second place in the 2019 Metropolitan International Piano Competition. He studied filmmaking at the New School and Asheville School of Film and has worked as a production assistant and audio engineer for PBS Appalachia, where he won an Emmy for his music video, “Pastoral”. His short films have been in several festivals, including the 2023 Mtn Craft Film Festival and the 56th Houston WorldFest (2022), where his short “Fleur de Sel” earned a Remi Award.