Colombian violist Angie Bolivar, recently selected as one of the 2022 Emerging Artists to perform in the American Viola Society Festival, is considered a remarkable example of a rising performer involved in the versatility of chamber music and creativity of twenty-first-century music repertoire. She received her bachelor’s degree from the Conservatory of Universidad Nacional de Colombia. She completed her Artist Diploma and Master’s Degree in Music Performance under Dr. Katrin Meidell at the Schwob School of Music, Columbus State University, and is a present Music Teacher Certificate student under Dr. Michelle Folta at the same institution. Former member of the Filarmónica Joven de Colombia and Orquesta Filarmónica Juvenil de Bogotá. Currently, Angie is a freelance performer of the Making Music Matter Program by the Columbus Symphony Orchestra, the viola Instructor at the Koart Academy of Music, the Preparatory Division of the Schwob School of Music, and the Music Assistant at the First Baptist Church in Columbus, Georgia. In June 2022 she premiered a commission for Viola and Piano by Mauricio Arias-Esguerra at the International Viola Congress, AVS Festival 2022. You can hear her on Sutton Foster’s Take Me to the World album.