Serenata for violin and guitar by Anibal Acosta

 Aníbal Acosta has received degrees in classical guitar performance from the North Carolina School of the Arts, the University of South Carolina, and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the Manhattan School of Music in New York. In 1987, he was awarded first prize at the Music Teachers National Association Student Composition Contest and the following year received a Rotary Foundation Scholarship to study classical guitar at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Vienna Austria. In 1995, he gave his New York debut at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall. Other awards include the Doctoral Guitar Fellowship and the Andrés Segovia Award from Manhattan School of Music. His teachers have included Manuel Barrueco, Christopher Berg and Konrad Ragossnig. From 1993 to 1998, he was a member of the music faculty at the Diller-Quaile School of Music and the Brooklyn Conservatory in New York. In 1998 he moved to the Hampton Roads area where he currently teaches, writes and performs. In 2005 he assumed the position of adjunct professor at Old Dominion University. His recordings include "Sonnet" (Lute and Vihuela Music from the Renaissance) and "Music from the Lower Tree-House Tavern" (German Baroque Music for Recorder and Guitar).