Christmas Piano Concert, Dec. 20 4 PM at Hillsborough Reformed Church

Collaborative pianist Dr. Akiko Hosaki has appeared as soloist, collaborative pianist, vocal coach, conductor, and basso continuo player in the United States, especially in New York- Princeton-Philadelphia area, Minneapolis, and throughout Japan, Taiwan, Barbados and Europe. As accompanist/basso continuo player, Dr. Hosaki has performed with choirs and orchestras, such as the American Boychoir, Fuma Sacra, Princeton Pro Musica, Riverside Symphonia, and Garden State Philharmonic. Previously working with several opera companies in Japan, she frequently works with the Princeton Festival Opera for their events and galas during the year in addition to work for the opera rehearsals in summer. She served as the keyboard/synthesizer player for their musical production, “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” by William, in 2015 Summer. She has also worked with opera companies in the area including the New Jersey State Opera, Opera North, and Opera New Jersey, Delaware Valley Opera Company, and the Castleton Festival. An active chamber musician, she has performed at the World Saxophone Congress XIII, and was the official accompanist at Tubonium2 and 3.

Dr. Hosaki currently serves as the head of vocal staff accompanists and the pianist coordinator at Westminster Choir College. During summer, she teaches Westminster’s High School Solo Vocal Artist as the music director, and is the assistant to Dalton Baldwin, internationally acknowledged accompanist, at Académie internationale d’été de Nice, France.

Dr. Hosaki holds degrees from Musashino Ongaku-Daigaku in Tokyo, Westminster Choir College, and University of Minnesota.

Pianist Dr. Donald Dolan has performed solo recitals at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall and Merkin Concert Hall in New York City, as a winner of the Artists International Piano Award and Alumni Prize. He was a featured soloist with the Vanderbilt Symphony, the University of Michigan Chamber Orchestra, and the Rutgers Symphony, as well as with the Nashville Symphony in a concert broadcast on Nashville public radio. A semifinalist of the National Federation of Music Clubs competition in Austin, Texas, and the Frinna Awerbuch International Piano Competition in New York City, he has also performed and competed internationally in Switzerland, Serbia, and Portugal.

Dr. Dolan’s commitment to new music has led to coachings with Pulitzer winning composers William Bolcom and Leslie Bassett. For his recent Merkin Concert Hall recital, he commissioned and premiered “Time Capsule I” by John Kaefer, a noted film and television composer whose recent credits include the theme package to ABC’s “Good Morning America” and the new theme for “20/20”.

One of the most sought after accompanists in the New York City and Philadelphia areas, Dr. Dolan has toured America as accompanist to the American Boychoir, and accompanied operas for opera workshops in New Brunswick, NJ, including a concert performance of Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thompson’s “The Mother of Us All”, funded by the Susan B. Anthony Project. In the instrumental world, he has collaborated in chamber music concert series and accompanied competitions throughout the region surrounding New York City. In addition, he was invited to perform a four-hand piano recital as a prelude to subscription concerts by the New Jersey Symphony at the State Theater in New Brunswick and the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark.

Dr. Dolan has taught at Westminster Conservatory in Princeton and Temple Music Prep in Philadelphia. Currently, he is the Director of Instrumental Music at the Pennington School, a private college preparatory boarding school in New Jersey. Dr. Dolan received degrees in piano performance from Vanderbilt University, the University of Michigan, and Rutgers University.

Suggested admission $10.