Gary Albert is a gay London-based multi-award winning composer and performer, who on October 7th is going to perform a solo concert called Metamorphosis in the exquisite St Cyprian’s Concert Church in Baker Street.
This is an evening of transportive, transcendental multi-instrumental, and neo-classical/electronic music.
“A multi-instrumental dream. If you are looking for meaning and hope… close your eyes, and let him take you on a journey to another world entirely” – Carl Burgess, Screen Critix
Gary Albert’s music is composed and performed with deep, heartfelt feeling, dramatic passion and refined elegance, the lines become beautifully blurred between genres; emotional, evocative and poetic modern classical, shimmering ambient-electronic with a thrilling, theatrical and goose-bump inducing cinematic edge. Gary balances a timeless sense of organic instrumentation with his fluttering flutes, pulsing pianos and velvet vocals combined with expertly nuanced, tasteful looping, layering and FX. This captivating cocktail invites you to sit back and drink in a riveting, compelling and emotionally arresting experience to be remembered forever.
Tickets are available at https://www.garyalbertmusic.com/book
Gary has taken the promotion of his first concert in a year as an opportunity to share with QX about how his personal metamorphosis has been one of transforming ADHD from what he calls “a curse” into “a gift”, and how he has achieved this through music. He hopes that it will inspire and help others.
Gary told QX, “All the men in my family have ADHD plus all kinds of other mental health conditions from OCD and Schizophrenia to Bi-Polar. In fact, my father took his own life a year and a half ago because of the state of his mental health. Personally, I’ve struggled with ADHD my whole life, and it has been the reason I’ve felt not good enough, like a failure or a total fraud…
As a professional composer, musician and performer it has made staying organised and disciplined a nightmare. And with so much inside me to give and offer through my art, it has felt depressing and debilitating.
But over the last few years, I decided to take it upon myself to transform the way I think about this ‘disorder’ and my mission has been to hack the system and turn what once were curses into gifts. And it’s working!”
Gary hopes that his music will inspire and help others through their own personal metamorphosis in a challenging world. “For years I saw my diagnosis as a curse that was ruining my life. All that has changed.”
While Metamorphosis follows his own personal and artistic struggles and the transformation he’s been through on his life’s journey Gary comments “With Metamorphosis, my aim is to create something beautiful to support others through their own personal challenges, using the power of music. When you see someone else working through their own struggles and still creating something in the world, it can galvanise others to go and do their own version of that. And I don’t know of anything more powerful and healing than bringing people into a space of togetherness and music”.
Gary concludes “This evening is designed to support us as a collective through the transformation that is sweeping the planet right now – as we wake up to ways of living and surviving that are no longer working for us… I wanted to show people that we aren’t helpless in our struggles, that we are not alone, and if we are up for the challenge, we truly can transform adversity into beauty”
Gary Albert invites us to join him on this journey at his next Central London solo concert.
Tickets are available at https://www.garyalbertmusic.com/book
Gary Albert presents Metamorphosis, 7 October 2022. Doors 7pm, concert 7:30pm. St Cyprian’s Concert Church, Clarence Gate, Glentworth Street, London NW1 6AX
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