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She graduated with a Gold Diploma from the Instituto Superior de Arte in Cuba and holds a Master’s Degree in Musical Performance from the Reina Sofía School of Music in Madrid, where she studied with the legendary pianist and professor Dimitri Bashkirov, as well as the renowned professors Denis Lossev and Marta Gulyas (chamber music). She also completed postgraduate studies and advanced training at the Conservatori del Liceu in Barcelona with Maestro Tensy Krismant, and participated in exchange programs at the Academy of Music and Drama at the University of Gothenburg (Sweden). During her studies, she was the recipient of scholarships from the Fundación Carolina, MAEC-AECID, and Fundación Albéniz.
She has won numerous competitions, including the María Clara Cullell Competition in Costa Rica, the Juventudes Musicales Piano Competition in Vilafranca del Penedès, and the Piano Cicle de Primavera in Barcelona. She has also received awards in the Amadeo Roldán and Musicalia piano competitions in Cuba, as well as in chamber music at the L’Arjau and UNEAC competitions. Her excellence was recognized with the Diploma for Most Outstanding Chamber Music Student, awarded personally by Her Majesty Queen Sofía, as a member of the Danzi Group.
She has performed in major concert halls and music festivals in Cuba, and as a soloist with the Cuban National Symphony Orchestra and the Eastern Symphony Orchestra. Internationally, she has given concerts in Germany, Sweden, Slovakia, the Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, Uruguay, and extensively across Spain as part of cycles such as AIE, Xarxa de Músiques de Catalunya, Juventudes Musicales concert circuits, and Ciudades Patrimonio series. She has also performed in renowned Spanish venues such as the National Auditorium of Madrid, the Juan March Foundation, and the Sony Auditorium of the Reina Sofía School of Music. Over the past year, she has undertaken an extensive concert tour as a member of Duo Ópalus with Spanish flutist Marta Femenía. She is also a member of the chamber ensembles Duo Ópalus, Duo Yarey, and Brises Ensemble, with whom she has studied under prestigious teachers including Marta Gulyas, Radovan Vlatković, Klaus Thunemann, Hansjörg Schellenberger, and Davide Formisano, among others.
Her participation in a variety of events has been significant, including the Montevideo Piano Series (Uruguay), the Santo Domingo Piano Festival, the Leo Brouwer Festival, the Chamber Music Festival, the Esteban Salas Early Music Festival (in collaboration with early music ensemble Ars Longa, playing harpsichord and organ), the Cuban Contemporary Music Festival, and the Young Pianists’ Encounters organized by Professor Solomon Mikowsky (Manhattan School of Music, New York).
She has recorded for the Colibrí label on several projects, most notably the CD-DVD “20 pianos” featuring music by Ernán López-Nussa, which won the Gran Premio Cubadisco. She has collaborated with prominent Cuban and international musicians across various styles and disciplines, such as composer, guitarist and conductor Leo Brouwer; conductors Baldur Brönnimann, Ronald Zollman, José Antonio Méndez, and Daiana García; soprano Bárbara Llanes; Baroque oboist Alfredo Bernardini; early music ensemble Ars Longa; saxophonist Pedro Pablo Cámara; jazz trumpeter Yasek Manzano; and singer-songwriter Liuba María Hevia, among others. She is a featured soloist in the artist catalog of Cuba’s National Center for Concert Music.
As an educator, she taught piano at the Amadeo Roldán Conservatory in Havana for three years, with her students achieving competition success and earning scholarships abroad. She has served as a jury member in various Cuban piano competitions and worked as a collaborative pianist at the Instituto Superior de Arte in Cuba in the clarinet, choral conducting, and orchestral conducting departments.
Since the previous academic year, she has been a collaborative pianist professor at the Centro Superior de Enseñanzas Musicales Katarina Gurska in Madrid and recently joined the Reina Sofía School of Music as a répétiteur. Alongside her teaching and concert activities, she is currently developing and carrying out the project Cuba: Contemporary Piano, which aims to perform and promote current piano works by Cuban composers.