Adolovni Acosta
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Adolovni Acosta is a Philippine-born classical pianist. Ms. Acosta is the daughter of Guillermo and Ernestina Acosta. She is a notable concert pianist and recitalist.
While a graduate student, she worked as a research aide to Dr. Jose Maceda at the Department of Asian Music.
in Middletown, Connecticut. A year later, she got accepted at The Juilliard School of Music in the class of Mieczyslaw Munz, and in 1971, she received the Master of Science degree in Piano. The school awarded her the John D. Rockefeller 3rd Fund scholarship. She also studied with Zenon Fishbein and Eugene List, and coached with Claude Frank and Constance Keene.
and Purcell Halls in London
, Salle Cortot in Paris
, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall
, Alice Tully Hall
in Lincoln Center, Merkin Concert Hall
and Steinway Hall
in New York City
, Hallwylska Museet in Stockholm
, Odd Fellow Palaet in Copenhagen
, Der Beethoven Saal in Bonn
, Yamaha Concert Hall in Vienna
, Centerpointe Theatre in Ottawa
, Centro Cultural Recoleta
in Buenos Aires
, Teatro Nacional
in Brasilia
, Sala Carlos Chavez in Mexico City
, Thailand Cultural Center, Bangkok Goethe House, and the Cultural Center of the Philippines
. She also has held recitals at Sunderland Art Gallery
presented by the Sunderland Pianoforte Society and at Wolverhampton Art Gallery
in England
, as well as in Berlin
, Hamburg
, Beijing
, Fuzhou
, Doha
, Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Sabah
, Brunei
, Phnom Penh
, Chiang Mai
, Kuala Lumpur
, Hong Kong
, and across the United States. She has given recitals two times at Melba Conservatorium of Music in Melbourne, Australia, and has been performing for Philippine Embassies and Consulates in many parts of the world. She was a featured recitalist at the Philippine Embassy in Washington, D.C. as part of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) presentations for Smithsonian Associates. Early on, she was selected by Jack Kahn Pianos to open their "Discovery Series" and to appear in "Boesendorfer Piano in Concert". Adolovni Acosta has given premieres of Bo Lawergren's compositions in many parts of the world.
in Singapore
; Ho Chi Minh City Conservatory of Music in Saigon, Vietnam; the University of Canterbury Department of Music in Christchurch, New Zealand; the Monash University School of Music-Conservatorium in Melbourne, Australia; the University College Sedaya Department of Music in Kuala Lumpur; the University of the Philippines College of Music and the UST Conservatory of Music in Manila; at the University of Malaysia for the Kota Kinabalu Music Society in Sabah; and for Brunei Music Society.
Training and Education in Manila
Adolovni Acosta started piano lessons at the age of nine with her musical mother Ernestina, who also taught the other children to play the piano. She continued with Juliana Velázquez. At age 11, she won in a radio competition in Manila, and at age 12, she was a winner in the Lucia Francisco Music Circle Piano Scholarship Competition. After graduating from high school at age 14, she passed the college entrance examination at the University of the Philippines (UP) and entered the Conservatory of Music. At UP, she was selected to be a soloist with the UP Symphony Orchestra in "Famous Concerto Movements" and was a soloist in two commencement concerts with the same orchestra. For outstanding academic and musical achievements at UP, she was awarded university and college scholarships. She received the Teacher's Diploma in Music and the Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees, all in Piano. Her major teachers were Benedicta Macaisa and Regalado Jose.While a graduate student, she worked as a research aide to Dr. Jose Maceda at the Department of Asian Music.
Education in the United States
Ms. Acosta came to the United States in 1968 as a graduate student on full assistantship that provided full tuition and monthly stipend in the World Music program of Wesleyan UniversityWesleyan University
Wesleyan University is a private liberal arts college founded in 1831 and located in Middletown, Connecticut. According to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Wesleyan is the only Baccalaureate College in the nation that emphasizes undergraduate instruction in the arts and...
in Middletown, Connecticut. A year later, she got accepted at The Juilliard School of Music in the class of Mieczyslaw Munz, and in 1971, she received the Master of Science degree in Piano. The school awarded her the John D. Rockefeller 3rd Fund scholarship. She also studied with Zenon Fishbein and Eugene List, and coached with Claude Frank and Constance Keene.
Performing career
Adolovni Acosta gave her New York debut in Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in 1971, and since then has performed in 41 cities in 25 countries in North and South America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and the Pacific and in venues such as Wigmore HallWigmore Hall
Wigmore Hall is a leading international recital venue that specialises in hosting performances of chamber music and is best known for classical recitals of piano, song and instrumental music. It is located at 36 Wigmore Street, London, UK and was built to provide London with a venue that was both...
and Purcell Halls in London
London
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, Salle Cortot in Paris
Paris
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, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States, located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east stretch of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street, two blocks south of Central Park....
, Alice Tully Hall
Alice Tully Hall
Alice Tully Hall is a concert hall at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City. It is named for Alice Tully, a New York performer and philanthropist whose donations assisted in the construction of the hall...
in Lincoln Center, Merkin Concert Hall
Merkin Concert Hall
Merkin Concert Hall is a 449-seat concert hall in Manhattan, New York City. The hall, named in honor of Hermann and Ursula Merkin, is part of the Kaufman Center, a complex that includes the Lucy Moses School, a community arts school, and the Special Music School , a New York City public school for...
and Steinway Hall
Steinway Hall
Steinway Hall is the name of buildings housing concert halls, showrooms and sales departments for Steinway & Sons pianos. The first Steinway Hall was opened 1866 in New York City. Today, Steinway Halls and Steinway-Häuser are located in world cities such as New York City, London, Hamburg, Berlin,...
in New York City
New York City
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, Hallwylska Museet in Stockholm
Stockholm
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, Odd Fellow Palaet in Copenhagen
Copenhagen
Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...
, Der Beethoven Saal in Bonn
Bonn
Bonn is the 19th largest city in Germany. Located in the Cologne/Bonn Region, about 25 kilometres south of Cologne on the river Rhine in the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, it was the capital of West Germany from 1949 to 1990 and the official seat of government of united Germany from 1990 to 1999....
, Yamaha Concert Hall in Vienna
Vienna
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, Centerpointe Theatre in Ottawa
Ottawa
Ottawa is the capital of Canada, the second largest city in the Province of Ontario, and the fourth largest city in the country. The city is located on the south bank of the Ottawa River in the eastern portion of Southern Ontario...
, Centro Cultural Recoleta
Centro Cultural Recoleta
The Recoleta Cultural Centre is an exhibition and cultural events centre located in the barrio of Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina....
in Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...
, Teatro Nacional
Teatro Nacional
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in Brasilia
Brasília
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, Sala Carlos Chavez in Mexico City
Mexico City
Mexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole...
, Thailand Cultural Center, Bangkok Goethe House, and the Cultural Center of the Philippines
Cultural Center of the Philippines
The Cultural Center of the Philippines is a government-owned and controlled corporation established to preserve, develop and promote arts and culture in the Philippines. The CCP was established through Executive Order No. 30 s. 1966 by President Ferdinand Marcos...
. She also has held recitals at Sunderland Art Gallery
Sunderland Art Gallery
The Sunderland Art Gallery is an art gallery based within the Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens centre, in Sunderland City Centre.The collection of paintings includes works by the British artist, L.S. Lowry, many with local significance. For example, 'River Wear at Sunderland' and 'Girl in a...
presented by the Sunderland Pianoforte Society and at Wolverhampton Art Gallery
Wolverhampton Art Gallery
Wolverhampton Art Gallery is located in the City of Wolverhampton, in the West Midlands, United Kingdom. The building was funded and constructed by local contractor Philip Horsman , and built on land provided by the Council...
in England
England
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, as well as in Berlin
Berlin
Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
, Hamburg
Hamburg
-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...
, Beijing
Beijing
Beijing , also known as Peking , is the capital of the People's Republic of China and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of 19,612,368 as of 2010. The city is the country's political, cultural, and educational center, and home to the headquarters for most of China's...
, Fuzhou
Fuzhou
Fuzhou is the capital and one of the largest cities in Fujian Province, People's Republic of China. Along with the many counties of Ningde, those of Fuzhou are considered to constitute the Mindong linguistic and cultural area....
, Doha
Doha
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, Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Sabah
Sabah
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, Brunei
Brunei
Brunei , officially the State of Brunei Darussalam or the Nation of Brunei, the Abode of Peace , is a sovereign state located on the north coast of the island of Borneo, in Southeast Asia...
, Phnom Penh
Phnom Penh
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, Chiang Mai
Chiang Mai
Chiang Mai sometimes written as "Chiengmai" or "Chiangmai", is the largest and most culturally significant city in northern Thailand. It is the capital of Chiang Mai Province , a former capital of the Kingdom of Lanna and was the tributary Kingdom of Chiang Mai from 1774 until 1939. It is...
, Kuala Lumpur
Kuala Lumpur
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, Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Hong Kong is one of two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China , the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour...
, and across the United States. She has given recitals two times at Melba Conservatorium of Music in Melbourne, Australia, and has been performing for Philippine Embassies and Consulates in many parts of the world. She was a featured recitalist at the Philippine Embassy in Washington, D.C. as part of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) presentations for Smithsonian Associates. Early on, she was selected by Jack Kahn Pianos to open their "Discovery Series" and to appear in "Boesendorfer Piano in Concert". Adolovni Acosta has given premieres of Bo Lawergren's compositions in many parts of the world.
Master Classes
Adolovni Acosta has conducted master classes in addition to performing recitals at Nanyang Academy of Fine ArtsNanyang Academy of Fine Arts
Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts is one of the oldest and most established tertiary arts institution in Singapore....
in Singapore
Singapore
Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...
; Ho Chi Minh City Conservatory of Music in Saigon, Vietnam; the University of Canterbury Department of Music in Christchurch, New Zealand; the Monash University School of Music-Conservatorium in Melbourne, Australia; the University College Sedaya Department of Music in Kuala Lumpur; the University of the Philippines College of Music and the UST Conservatory of Music in Manila; at the University of Malaysia for the Kota Kinabalu Music Society in Sabah; and for Brunei Music Society.
Recordings
Ms.Acosta has recorded Ernesto Lecuona's Andalucia and Danzas-Afro-Cubanas for Orion Master Recordings and Piano Works of Carl Nielsen for Musical Heritage Society. Her performances and recordings often with live interviews have been featured on Swedish Radio in Stockholm, Brunei TV, Argentine Television Acercando Oriente and Radio Belgrano, Vietnam Television, Voice of America, National Public Radio Network, GM7 TV in Manila, and New York City radio programs.Honors
Adolovni Acosta is a Pamana ng Pilipino awardee in the 2006 Philippine Presidential Awards for Filipino Individuals and Organizations Overseas. The awards were conferred by Her Excellency, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in a Testimonial Dinner at Malacanang Palace in Manila on December 7, 2006 where she also performed. She has participated in a concert at The White House for then First Lady Rosalyn Carter during an annual diplomatic corps dinner. In 1982, she was named as one of the "Ten Outstanding Young Women of America" after being selected as Outstanding Young Woman of America from New York. She was included in Good Housekeeping Magazine's "100 Young Women of Promise" in its 100th anniversary issue. Ms. Acosta appears in Chronology of Western Classical Music 1751-2000 published by Routledge in 2002 and has been featured in International Who's Who in Classical Music. Early on, Ms. Acosta won first prize in a national piano competition in Manila sponsored by the Music Promotion Foundation of the Philippines.See also
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