Aida Olarte, a native of Colombia, is currently earning a Doctoral of Musical Arts degree in Collaborative piano from ASU with Professor Russell Ryan. She earned her Master of Music degree in Piano Performance from Duquesne University in the piano class of Natasha Snitkovsky, as well as a Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance from Duquesne University. She received a full fellowship award to pursue an Advanced Music Studies Certificate for the Collaborative Piano Program at Carnegie Mellon University In August 2016. Additionally, she was selected to be one of the Resident Artist Pianists, for the Opera Theater of Pittsburgh Summer festival. She earned an Associate in Arts from Miami Dade College (Miami, FL).
Aida has served as an accompanist for the Concert Choir at ASU ( Arizona, AZ), the Percussion Ensemble at Duquesne University (Pittsburgh, PA), Symphony Orchestra at Duquesne University (Pittsburgh, PA), Wind Symphony at Duquesne University (Pittsburgh, PA), Coro Latino Americano (Pittsburgh, PA), Undercroft Opera (Pittsburgh, PA), and went on tour with the American Wind Symphony Orchestra (USA). She is also a member of the National Music Honor Society Pi Kappa Lambda and The Music Teachers National Association. Aida was part of the piano faculty at the City Music Center, and for six years, she was the music director for Hebron Presbyterian Church (Clinton, PA). Currently, she is working as a ballet pianist for the Intensive Summer Program at the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre School (Pittsburgh, PA).
In her free time Aida enjoys working out at the gym. She also loves ice cream and other desserts.