Ghadeer Abaido

ADJUNCT PROFESSOR OF PIANO

Email: ghadeernaser@usf.edu
Phone: (813) 974-2311

Ghadeer Abaido is a Palestinian-Jordanian pianist with extensive experience in the music world. From performing classical music as a soloist to collaborating with chamber music groups and orchestras in the Middle East, Europe and the United States. She received her Bachelors degree from the National Music Conservatory in Jordan. While living in Jordan, she performed the Tchaikovsky piano concerto under the baton of Mohammed Uthman Siddiq, and Liszt’s second piano concerto in collaboration with the conductor Jose Arean. Ghadeer was also actively involved with the humanitarian aid organization War Child, where she was dedicated to working with refugees in different parts of Jordan.

Ghadeer worked briefly in Dubai as a film-score composer; her music won two Lynx awards and was featured in the Dubai International Film Festival. She moved to the United States in 2017, and completed her masters at the University of South Florida under the guidance of Dr. Svetozar Ivanov. While studying at USF, she won the concerto competition was awarded first place in the USF piano competition. Ghadeer participated in the Osaka International Piano competition, where she won first place in the U.S. regionals, and went on to Japan for the finals. She most recently won the Iowa Performance Fellowship award from the University of Iowa, where she completed the requirements for her Doctorate in Piano performance under the guidance of Dr. Rene Lecuona.

Ghadeer has taken part in music festivals regionally and around the world; some festivals she performed in are the Cincinnati Young Artists Chamber Music Festival, the Harvard Chamber Music Festival, the Savonlinna Chamber Music Festival in Finland, the International Brancaleoni Music Festival in Italy, and the International Prague Piano Festival. She has performed in masterclasses for and studied with world famous pianists such as Ralf Gothoni, Valentina Lisitsa, Antonio Pompa-Baldi and Richard Goode. 

Ghadeer enjoys performing chamber music with a variety of instrumentalists and chamber groups, most notably Reflections Chamber Ensemble, a Tampa-based, not-for-profit chamber music group that focuses on promoting the work of underrepresented and living composers. She is also a part of Roam duo with renowned pianist Svetozar Ivanov, their piano ensemble focuses on artistic creativity and collaboration across disciplines. Ghadeer recently returned from a Europe tour where she played as part of Roam Duo and as a soloist in The Kultursalon Die Flaneure Series in Berlin, Germany. The Prague Piano Festival in the Czech Republic. The Willa Decjusza Concert Series in Krakow, Poland. Autunno Musicale Music Festival in Naples and Terre d’Arezzo Music Festival in Arezzo, Italy

Ghadeer currently serves as an adjunct professor at the University of South Florida, and she was recently selected as piano faculty and Hastings Fellow at the Prague Piano Festival.