Michael Albert has performed as a soloist for many orchestras and chamber ensembles as an oboist, vocalist and violinist throughout the U.S. and Canada. He explores several musical styles including baroque, contemporary, celtic, and jazz. Michael performs baroque violin and/or countertenor with Seraphic Fire and the Firebird Orchestra based in Miami, and Ecclesia, Tableau, Blue Lobster, and Portland Pro Musica. Michael performs on fiddle and whistle with the Beggar Boys celtic band, plays oboe with the Portland and Bangor Symphonies, the North Shore Philharmonic Orchestra in Massachusetts, the Maine Chamber Ensemble, the Colby College Orchestra, and jazz oboe with Initial Ascent, a Toronto-based band. Michael also composes and performs music for film scores with Maine composer Jan Carter, and is a featured soloist on several of her recordings and can be heard on the filmscores to the PBS documentaries "Sweet Ambition", "The Polygamist's Daughter", and "Swift Justice". Michael is on the adjunct faculty at Colby College, Waterville, Maine where he and teaches oboe.

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