Managing Director
Adalus Low-Manzini is a Venezuelan cellist, teaching artist, and arts administrator based in Cincinnati, Ohio, where she is pursuing an Artist Diploma in Cello Performance with Professor Alan Rafferty at the University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music.
At present, Adalus carries out an important activity as a musician that includes both pedagogy and chamber music. With a decade of private teaching experience, Adalus has students from ages 4 to 55. From 2019 to 2021, Adalus was a cello teaching artist at Kids' Orchestra (an “El Sistema” inspired music program), where she taught cello to elementary and middle school children in the Baton Rouge, Louisiana, area.
Adalus has been involved with the International Cello Institute (ICI) since 2018. She has served in various positions at ICI (Video and Social Director 2019-2023, Co-Director of Operations 2023-2026, and Managing Director since April 2026). In this role, she is in charge of budgeting and bookkeeping, oversees artistic logistics of the program, and manages all general operations of the institute alongside Artistic & Executive Director, Anna Clift. She is the Lead Artistic Assistant at Center Stage Strings, where she coordinates programming and logistics for the festival. Adalus collaborates with the Department of Creation of Digital Content of Center Stage String (CSS), Strings of Latin America (SOLA), and The Sphinx Catalog of Latin American Cello Works, these last two initiatives of the Sphinx Organization.