María Elena Mendiola
She comes from a family of professionals not dedicated to music
Carolina Poncet de Cárdenas
Born in Guanabacoa, Havana, on August 13, 1879, she received in her home the ethical legacy of her maternal grandfather José María de Cárdenas Rodríguez (1812-1882), a prose writer and poet, who was ...
Hilda Saavedra Tuero
Lawyer by profession, but artist by nature
Maribel de la C. Ponce de León Mola
She was born in Las Tunas, daughter of working-class parents
Leonor C. Arias Oliva
She was born in Marianao, Ciudad de la Habana, on January 28, 1950, daughter of working-class parents
Lyliam Díaz Fernández
She was born on February 24, 1933, studied primary education at a neighborhood school run by a teacher graduated in teacher training, did not attend secondary school, took an exam to enter high school ...
Ana Guillermina Navarro Lautén
Anita
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Ana Navarro was the first Cuban woman to graduate in the specialty of Pediatric Endocrinology, and after her graduation she moved to Santiago de Cuba where she developed this specialty as a ...
Mercedes Batule Batule
La Batule
She completed her primary studies at a small school in her native town, with a teacher who was also of Lebanese origin and very close to her parents
Dulce María Serret Danger
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Pianist and teacher born in Santiago de Cuba, she received her first music lessons in her native land
María Eugenia Barrios Acosta
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Soprano
Martina Guevara Molina
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Young woman born in Vueltas, Las Villas, she was one of the first seven graduates of the first School of Nursing founded in Cuba, in 1899, during the First American Intervention and Occupation, ...
Francisca Graciela del Carmen Barraqué Nicolau
A pedagogue who is part of Cuba's most relevant educators
Enma Badía
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She studied piano; initially, with Juan Molinari, as well as Harmony with Rosich in Spain, where she was a member of the Orfeo Catalá de Barcelona
Rita Longa Aróstegui
An important Cuban sculptor, considered a leading figure in this art form in the twentieth century
Sara Rosa González Gómez
Sara González, La voz femenina de la Nueva Trova
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Composer, singer and guitarist
Ada Elba Pérez Rodríguez
Guajirita deslumbrada
She was born in Jarahueca, province of Sancti Spíritus
Argelia Fragoso
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Cuban singer with skills to traverse varied song genres, with good diction and perfect musicality, great contralto range and admirable intonation
Nancy Casanova Rodríguez
Distinguished pianist and professor
Excilia Saldaña Molina
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Poet, teacher, translator, and writer of children's literature, Cuban
Liane Borbolla Vacher
Doctor Liane Borbolla Vacher, first woman to receive a Doctorate in Medical Sciences in Cuba
María Teresa Freyre de Andrade Escardó
Founder of Cuban library science; bibliographer and librarian of the Biblioteca Nacional José Martí, institution of which she was the first director upon the triumph of the Cuban Revolution, founder ...
Dolores de la Torriente Brau
Loló de la Torriente, María Luz de Nora
Critic, journalist, professor, lecturer and writer of intense intellectual and political life
Eloína Echeverría Torriente
Athletics champion with great achievements and recognition gained through her career as a Cuban athlete
Esther Borja Pérez
La Damisela encantadora
Esther Borja, considered one of the main voices of Cuba in the twentieth century
Bárbara Llanes Zertucha
Excellent singer, pianist, composer, and arranger
Mayda Prado Alfonso
Cuban-American soprano Mayda Prado carries out the work in Cuernavaca of transmitting to new generations of singers the knowledge she has acquired through great teachers such as María Callas
Alice Dana Plasencia
Singer (soprano), pedagogue and composer
Clara Amalia de los Reyes Romero de Nicola
Born in La Habana, guitarist and professor
Carmelina Santana Reyes
Lyric soprano and professor
Margarita Horruitiner López
Born in Santiago de Cuba, the soprano and pedagogue
Rosa María Matos Espinosa
Guitarist and pedagogue, she was the first woman to win the International Guitar Competition-Festival of La Habana
Orisel Gaspar Rojas
Family
Spouse Wences Santomé
Son/s Adriano Carballo
Alma Santomé
Actress, theater director, acting teacher, poet, and Cuban-Hispanic casting director
Lázara María Lladó Sánchez
Born in La Habana
Susy Oliva
She was born in the city of Santiago de Cuba
Ernestina Cabaleiro Cervantes
Piano, music theory, and solfège teacher
Elena Herrera Peraza
Orchestra conductor and musicologist
Ninón Lima Guerrero
Outstanding Cuban soprano singer, recognized for her artistic and teaching work
María Elena Molinet de la Peña
Stage designer, professor, essayist
Iris Burguet
Concert performer with refined technique
Yolanda Benet
Eternamente Yolanda
Born in Cienfuegos, Yolanda Benet moved with her parents to Havana while still a teenager
Olga Negreira González
She was the first professor of Galician language who taught classes to the descendants of emigrants in Cuba and one of the promoters of the refoundation of the Centro Unión Orensano of which she was a ...
Alina de los Milagros Orraca Llama
Choir director and pedagogue
