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Albin Fries (born June 18, 1955 in Steyr, Upper Austria) is an Austrian pianist and composer.
Fries studied music education and piano with Alexander Jenner at the Vienna Musikhochschule. He also completed a master class with Jorge Bolet. In 1977 he won the Austrian Youth Composition Competition and in 1981 he received the Talent Promotion Prize for Music of the Province of Upper Austria.
In 1982 Fries received composition lessons from Leonard Bernstein. He studied with Sascha Gorodnitzki in New York City. He returned to Vienna as accompanist and study director at the Vienna State Opera and as a teacher at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. Musical assistant to Lorin Maazel at the Salzburg Festival.
After more than 20 years of creative break, compositions were created again in 2005. In quick succession, several song cycles, tonal chamber music and piano works, characterized by the musical language of the late Romantic period. In 2010/11 the three-act opera Nora was written based on a libretto by Miriam Mollard, in 2012 the concert opera Titian after Hugo von Hofmannsthal.
His songs were sung by a number of well-known artists, including Elisabeth Kulman, Angelika Kirchschlager, Ildiko Raimondi, Camilla Nylund and others.
Fries received a composition commission from the direction of the Vienna State Opera for a romantic fairy tale opera "Persinette" for young audiences, which will be premiered at the Großes Haus der Wiener Staatsoper in 2019/20.