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Adolfo Vidal’s has been hailed as an "exciting and compelling pianist” (Surface and Symbol, Toronto). His appearances include performances in Europe, South and North America.
Born in Venezuela Adolfo C. Vidal started piano studies at the age of 5 under the French pianist Gerard Bourgogne. Further music studies were completed at the Maracaibo Conservatory of Music and Caracas Latin American Piano Cathedra under the Russian pianists Mikhail Antoshin, Igor Lavrov, and Stanislav Pochekin.
In 2001, under the supervision of Marietta Orlov and Andre Laplante, Vidal completed a 2-year Artist Diploma, at the Glenn Gould Professional School of the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, Canada. There, he participated in master classes with pianists such as, John Perry, Robert McDonald, Claude Frank, Boris Berezovzky, Alan Walker, Angela Cheng, and Julian Martin among others.
In the US, he earned his Doctorate in Music (DMA) at the University of Miami, as well as a BM and a MM majoring in piano performance. His teachers included JB Floyd, Gordon Roberts, Susan Starr, and Kemal Gekic. In New York City he attended Masterclasses with Robert McDonald up to two years.
In Miami, where he lives, he is an active collaborative and chamber musician at several universities. He has written piano transcriptions from the music of the Venezuelan guitar composer Antonio Lauro. In addition of being an active performer, Vidal devotes a lot of his time to teaching, he is in the piano adjunct faculty at Florida International University, and he is the Coordinator for the Music Learning Center at Miami Dade College.
