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Adolfo VidalŐs has been hailed as an "exciting and compelling pianistÓ (Surface and Symbol, Toronto). His appearances include performances in Europe, South and North America.
In 2001 under the supervision of Marietta Orlov and Andre Laplante, Vidal completed the Artist Diploma program at the Glenn Gould Professional School of the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, Canada. He played in Masterclasses for pianists, John Perry, Robert McDonald, Claude Frank, Angela Cheng, Marc Durand, Julian Martin and Alan Walker, among others. During the Sarasota Music Festival 2001, aside from numerous exciting performance opportunities, one of them broadcasted for WQXR New York, Vidal also worked with teachers Susan Starr, Robert Levin and John Perry.
Vidal holds a MM and BM from Florida International University in Miami where he studied with Kemal Gekic, Susan Starr, and Miguel Salvador, also with Gordon Roberts at the Chopin Foundation of USA. He also played for many Masterclasses with pianists such as, Roberta Rust, Mark Zeltzer, Eleri Anjaparidze, Arthur Pizarro, Lorin Hollander, Boris Berezovski and Vladimir Feltsman.
Born in Venezuela and winner of two National Piano Competitions, Adolfo C. Vidal started piano studies at the age of 5 in Coro, World Cultural Heritage Site declared by the UNESCO, under the French pianist Gerard Bourgogne. Further music studies were completed at the Maracaibo and Caracas Conservatories of Music under the Russian pianists Mikhail Antoshin, Igor Lavrov and Stanislav Pochekin. In 1990 another Bachelor of Music Education was earned from the Cecilio Acosta Catholic University in Venezuela.
Currently he is the staff accompanist and adjunct faculty at Florida International University and he is also the Director for the first Preparatory School of Music at Miami Dade College, with the mission of educating pre-college students to come better prepared for the College and to serve to the rest of the community in need of an education in music.
Vidal is working with a project of his own transcriptions from the guitar music of the Venezuelan composer Antonio Lauro and he will be recording in Canada next year. Vidal works closely with the American pianist Gordon Roberts who has remained his teacher and mentor.
