Music of Cuba - 21st Century Classical and Art Music

21st Century Classical and Art Music

During the last decades of the 20th Century and the beginning of the 21st Century a new generation of composers emerged into the Cuban classical music panorama. Most of them received a solid musical education provided by the official arts school system created by the Cuban government and graduated from the Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA). Some of those composers are: Ileana Pérez Velázquez, Keila María Orozco, Viviana Ruiz, Fernando (Archi) Rodríguez Alpízar and Yalil Guerra.

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