Staff Bios
Albert Hacker
Piano
First Prize in the 2025 Charleston International Music Competition and Top 15 Most Exceptional Performers Award for both Chamber Music and Solo Piano
First Prize in the 2025 Grand Prize Virtuoso International Music Competition (Vienna, Austria)
Received Certificate of Merit Panel Honors in 2024 from the Music Teachers' Association of California
First Place in the 2023 Crescendo International Music Competition, Advanced Level
First Prize in the 2023 International Young Artist Piano Competition (Washington D.C.)
Gold Medal in the 2023 International Young Gifted Musicians Festival Winners Concert (Carnegie Hall)
First Place Grand Prize for Solo Piano and First Place and Special Prize for Ensemble at the 2022 Satori Summer Music Festival
Biography
Albert Hacker has been studying piano since the age of 5 and is a Senior in the Performance Group at the Orange County School of the Arts (OCSA) Instrumental Music Conservatory's Pianist Program. He also studied violin as a second instrument. Albert has earned top awards in local, regional, and international competitions and performed in winners’ concerts for solo, chamber, and orchestral works at renowned venues including Segerstrom Center for the Arts, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Carnegie Hall, and the Musikverein in Vienna, Austria. Recent examples of his award winning repertoire for piano include Liszt's La Campanella and Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6. Esteemed teachers of his have included Oxana Yablonskaya, Dr. Stewart Gordon of USC, Prof. Claudius Tanski of the Mozarteum University in Salzburg, Austria, and Prof. Michael Lewin of the Boston Conservatory at Berklee, to name a few. After successfully making his way to the Advanced level, he wishes to pass along what he has learned to encourage other student pianists.
School: Orange County School of the Arts (OCSA)