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About the composer: Amado Bobadilla
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Amado Bobadilla
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With a B.A. in music performance from Rollins College, Amado has worked in the Central Florida arts community for the past sixteen years as a musical director, accompanist and educator. He music directed The Wizard of Oz and Good News! at the Icehouse Theatre in Mount Dora; Honk!, A Year with Frog and Toad, School House Rock Live!, and Just So for the Orlando Repertory Theatre; and Cabaret for the Center Players in Maitland. He was a musical director for the Orlando production of Menopause the Musical, and is former director of the Orlando Opera Children’s Opera Group. He has worked as an accompanist and vocal coach at the University of Central Florida, Rollins College and the New School of Orlando.
He is the company pianist for the Orlando Ballet and accompanies for the Rollins College and Valencia Community College dance programs. He has accompanied class for American Ballet Theatre, The School of American Ballet, The Kirov Academy, The Rock School, The Limon Company, the Parsons Dance Company and Nutmeg Conservatory. He has played master classes for Gelsey Kirkland, Fernando Bujones, Bruce Marks, David Parsons, Robert Hill, Yan Chen and Julie Kent among others.
His original compositions have been performed by Southern Ballet Theatre, Orlando Opera Children’s Opera Group, and the Orlando Opera Resident Artists. His comedic duet, Blondes, was a 2002 gold medal winner at the Headliners junior division duets and his Heartbeat duet for piano and percussion was commissioned for performance at the International Dance Competition in Jackson, MS, in the same year. He has also composed twelve songs and collaborated on lyrics for the youth theatre production, The Invisible People, that was presented (in progress) for several Broadway notables at Seaside Music Theatre in Daytona Beach and at the Orlando/UCF Shakespeare Festival in Orlando in 2007.
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