ADOLOVNI ACOSTA is a recipient of the "Pamana ng Pilipino" 2006 PHILIPPINE PRESIDENTIAL AWARD. She is also a first prize winner in a national piano competition sponsored by the Music Promotion Foundation of the Philippines. She received the John D. Rockefeller 3rd scholarship from The Juilliard School at Lincoln Center in the M.S. program.
MS. ACOSTA HAS PERFORMED IN 41 CITIES IN 25 COUNTRIES in Europe, North and South America, the Middle East, Asia and the Pacific and at prestigious venues that include Salle Cortot in Paris; Wigmore and Purcell Halls in London; Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, Merkin Concert Hall, and Steinway Hall in New York; Hallwylska Museet in Stockholm; Odd Fellow Palaet in Copenhagen; Der BeethovenSaal in Bonn; Yamaha Concert Hall in Vienna; Centerpointe Theatre in Ottawa; Centro Cultural Recoleta in Buenos Aires; Teatro Nacional in Brasilia; Sala Carlos Chavez (UNAM) in Mexico City; Thailand Cultural Center in Bangkok; Bangkok Goethe House; the Cultural Center of the Philippines; and the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza in California.
She also has held recitals at Sunderland Art Gallery presented by the Sunderland Pianoforte Society and at Wolverhampton Art Gallery in England, the Nanyang Academy for the Performing Arts in Sngapore, the University of Hong Kong and Hong Kong Baptist University, both presented by their music departments, as well as in Berlin, Hamburg, Den Haag, Doha, Beijing, Fuzhou, Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Sabah, Brunei, Phnom Penh, Chiang Mai, Kuala Lumpur, Melbourne (Australia), Christchurch (New Zealand), Vigan (Philippines), and across the United States. One of the highlights of her 2003 tour was a performance at the Hong Kong Academy for the Performing Arts.
Ms. Acosta's performances, often with live interviews, have been featured on Swedish Radio in Stockholm, Voice of America, Argentine Television Acercando Oriente and Radio Belgrano, Vietnam Television, Brunei TV, Manila radio and TV stations, National Public Radio Network (USA), and New York City radio stations. Her interview with UCI's UNTV37 has been shown throughout the Philippines.
AN ACTIVE EDUCATOR, Ms. Acosta has conducted master classes at universities and music conservatories in Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Brunei, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. She has taught at The Juilliard School Pre-College Division, New York University Department of Music and the Performing Arts Professions, and Hunter College of the City University of New York Department of Continuing Education.
In addition to performing recitals presented by Philippine Embassies and Consulates in many parts of the world, Ms. Acosta has performed at The White House for former first lady Rosalyn Carter during the annual diplomatic corps dinner, and at Malacanan Palace in Manila in the presence of Philippine President Gloria M. Arroyo and former President Fidel Ramos during the testimonial dinner for the 2006 Philippine Presidential Award recipients.
Her performances have benefited Cancer Care, Inc. and the Asian Cultural Council in New York, the Instituto de Obras Sociales of Michoacán in Mexico City through the Philippine Embassy, the University of the Philippines through UP alumni associations in The Netherlands and the U.S. (Chicago and Berkeley), and the Filipino Ministry in Westlake, California. She also has performed to establish a scholarship fund for children of Filipino descent in Grand Rapids, Michigan through the West Michigan Filipino-American Association.
Ms. Acosta was selected as one of the "Ten Outstanding Young Women of America" for 1982 after being selected as Outstanding Young Woman of America from New York. SHE IS INCLUDED IN CHRONOLOGY OF WESTERN CLASSICAL MUSIC (1751-2000) by Charles J. Hall published by Routledge, in GOOD HOUSEKEEPING's "100 Young Women of Promise" in its 100th anniversary issue, and in International Who's Who in Classical Music.
Having started piano lessons at the age of 9 with her mother, she won in a radio competition in Manila at age 11, and was a winner in the Lucia Francisco Music Circle Piano Scholarship Competition at age 12. After graduating from high school at age 14, she passed the college entrance examination at the University of the Philippines and entered the Conservatory of Music where she studied with Benedicta Macaisa and Regalado Jose. Ms. Acosta has also studied with Mieczyslaw Munz at The Juilliard School, Zenon Fishbein, and Eugene List, and has coached with Claude Frank and Constance Keene.