This year, the world celebrates the bicentenary anniversary of Fryderyk Chopin, one of the greatest composers and pianists in the history of music.

In this connection, in India - Chopin 2010 India Celebration Committee was formed in 2009, to formulate the policy towards implementation of the programmes during the year 2010.

 

Tribute from Asia is the inaugural event of the year of Chopin in India It featured piano concert by Ms. Adolovni Acosta.

  
 

PROGRAMME

Mazurka in G-sharp Minor, Op.33, No.1 Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)
Mazurka in D Major, Op.33, No.2
Nocturne in C-sharp Minor, Op.27, No.1  
Impromptu in F-sharp Major, Op.36
Etude in E Major Op.10, No.3                    
Etude in D-Flat Major Op.25, No.8
Fantaisie in F Minor, Op.49

Intermission

Almeria (from Iberia) Isaac Albeniz (1860-1909)
Papillons, Op.2Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Variations Sérieuses, Op.54 in D Minor   Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)

  
 
Adolovni Acosta
  
   

Born in the Philippines and a resident of New York City, Adolovni Acosta received the John D. Rockefeller 3rd Fund scholarship from The Juilliard School at Lincoln Center where she earned the M.Sci. degree under the tutelage of Mieczyslaw Munz. She also studied privately for four years with Zenon Fishbein, and for six years with Eugene List.
Adolovni also attended Wesleyan University in Connecticut (World Music Program on full assistantship) and New York University. A recipient of the 2006 Philippine Presidential Award for overseas Filipinos and the first prize winner in a national piano competition sponsored by the Music Promotion Foundation of the Philippines, she earned the TDM, BM and MM degrees from the University of the Philippines.
 Adolovni 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.  

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