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Aruán Ortiz
ARUÁN ORTÍZ TRIO
"A former classically trained violist and pianist, Aruán
Ortiz was born in Santiago de Cuba in 1973, and began his studies at the age
of 8 at the Escuela Vocacional de Arte in his hometown. Continuing at the
Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana, Cuba, he was marked by the influence
of Bach, Mozart, Paganini and Liszt among others. After receiving various
awards as a violist (Amadeo Roldán award for Best Mozart Interpretation,
1991, Best Interpretation of Cuban Music, 1991), and playing as a soloist
with the Santiago Symphony Orchestra in 1992, he gave up the viola at the
age of 20 in favor of the piano, an instrument he had always preferred and
with which he most identified in his search for new sounds. Following his
heart, Aruán went on to study classical piano at the Conservatorio
Profesional de Música in Santiago de Cuba. In 1995 he won Best Cuban
Composition at the Symposium of Cuban Music, Jamaica, and soon thereafter he
was discovered by the Spanish record label Magic Music/Universal Records,
which brought him to Spain where he participated in “La Isla de la Música”
(1996). This project assembled music from all over Cuba, was acclaimed by
the international press, and was recognized as one of the first albums to
bring Cuban music to the European and American mainstream." -- from www.aruanortiz.com
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