Charlie Albright, winner of the 2010 Gilmore Young Artist Award and the 2009 Young Concert Artists International Auditions, will take the Backus Community Center Auditorium stage at 7:30 p.m. Friday as part of the Border Concert Association series.

According to a release, the young pianist concluded the 2010-11 season of debuts to critical acclaim and was hailed by the Washington Post as being “among the most gifted musicians of his generation,” and the New York Times praised his “jaw-dropping technique.”

Born in Centralia, Wash., Albright began piano lessons at the age of 3. He earned an associate of science degree at Centralia College while he was in high school and was accepted to Harvard College/New England Conservatory of Music joint program, where he completed his bachelor’s degree as a pre-med and economics major at Harvard in 2011. In 2012, he earned his master of music degree in piano performance at the New England Conservatory. He also recently earned his artist diploma from the Julliard School of Music.

Highlights of Albright’s 2011-12 season included a fourth concert with French and American cellist Yo-Yo Ma, an appearance with the Phoenix Symphony performing Tchaikovsky’s Concerto No. 1, solo recitals at the Gilmore International Keyboard Festival, the Morgan Library, the Friends of Music Concerts, the Macomb Center for the Performing Arts, the Palladium Theater at St. Petersburg and Missouri State University.

An earlier performance, at age 18, with Yo-Yo Ma was at a ceremony at which Sen. Ted Kennedy received an honorary degree from Harvard University. Another performance with the cellist was during a program commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Albright has given concerto performances with the Seattle Philharmonic and the Olympia, Port Angeles, and Northwest Wind Symphonies in Washington State.

Season passes for the Border Concert series are available at City Drug, County Market and the Backus office in the Falls; Betty’s, Fort Frances Museum and Northwoods Gallery and Gifts in Fort Frances; Cloverleaf Store, Greensides and Emo Drug Store in Emo; and from Rose Kreger in Rainy River. The cost is $45 for adults; $10 for students; and $95 for families.

Single-show tickets will be available at the Backus door the night of the performance.