Dr. Dolores Gadevsky has served as piano faculty at Chautauqua Institution, the Eastman School of Music, Los Angeles Conservatory, the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Csehy Summer School of Music, and the University of Central Arkansas, where she was also a member of the faculty trio. She retired in 2005 from Houghton College, where she was Associate Professor in Piano. While residing in Vienna for eight years she coached at the Weiner Kammeroper, was a free-lance accompanist, and at the Mozarteum in Salzburg was accompanist for Rita Streich, Carlos Alexander, and Enrico Mainardi. In recent years she has been invited to conduct numerous piano master classes, most recently at Taylor University and at Eastern College. She also utilizes every opportunity to participate in chamber music. She is currently serving as Adjunct Professor in Piano at St. Petersburg College where she is also coordinator of the annual Sonatina-Sonata Festival, as well as co-managing and performing annually in the Piano Concert Series for guest artists. 

Dr. Gadevsky received a Doctor of Musical Arts in Piano Performance from the Eastman School of Music and was the recipient of a Fulbright Grant to the Musikhochschule at Freiburg im Breisgau. At the Music Academy in Vienna she studied with Bruno Seidlhofer, where she received the Performer’s Diploma, and in Paris studied briefly with Nadia Boulanger. Her solo and chamber music recitals include numerous performances in Europe, South America, and the United States, including appearances at Brahms Saal in Vienna, the Mozarteum in Salzburg, and La Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango in Bogotá. She has appeared on Austrian National Radio, Colombian National Television, and in California she gave a series of live weekly radio programs devoted to solo piano literature. She was a piano soloist with the Orquesta Fiilarmonica de Bogotá and with the Kern Philharmonic Orchestra, and played the world premiere of the John Cowell Piano Concerto with the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra in Washington, DC’s Kennedy Center.