Leo Brouwer

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LEO BROUWER   (Havana, 1939)

Honorific Member of UNESCO with Stern, Penderecki, Menuhin, Shankar and other, is composer, conductor, guitarist, researcher, pedagogue and cultural promoter.  Let us just mention his work as a national advisor of radio and television in Cuba in the 1960's, founder of Cuban Film Industry (1960) and of Teatro Musical de La Habana (1962), in the renovation of the curricula of music studies, as a jury in numerous national and international contests, conducting more than hundred symphonic orchestras and chamber ensembles around the world, with more than six hundred records with his music and a catalogue of 300 works covering nearly all genres and musical forms.

Also his work since 1992 up to 2001 as Main Conductor of the Orchestra of Cordoba, Spain and National Symphonic Orchestra of Cuba (1981-2003). To this we may add his status as Honorific Member of prestigious institutions like SGAE, the Italian-Latin American Institute, and the Academy of Fine Arts of Granada, besides being guest composer of DAAD and lecturer of Academy of Science and Arts of Berlin.

In 1998 he obtained the "Manuel de Falla Award" in Spain, the Doctor Honoris Causa Degree, the Felix Varela Order in the First Degree and the National Prize of Music in its first edition among others. Prize at the MIDEM Classic Award, Cannes 2003 in the solo-orchestra category, with his work Concierto de Helsinki para guitarra y orquesta, (Ondine Records, Finland).