María Felicia Pérez

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María Felicia Pérez Arroyo (born March 23, 1951 in Havana ) is a Cuban choir director and music teacher .

Pérez attended the Conservatorio Amadeo Roldán from 1962 to 1968 and then studied choral conducting with Carmen Collado López and Agnes Kralowsky and piano with Margot Rojas Mendoza until 1971 at the Eschuela Nacional de Arte . From 1976 to 1982 she was a student of Günter Fredrich at the Musikhochschule Weimar .

From 1971 Pérez taught at the Conservatorio Amadeo Roldán and from 1974 to 1976 at the Escuela Nacional de Instructores de Arte . From 1982 to 1990 she was professor of choral singing at the Instituto Superior de Arte . During this time she founded and directed the women's choir of the Escuela Nacional de Música . She also founded the Exaudi Chamber Choir in 1987 from graduates of the Escuela Nacional de Música and the Instituto Superior de Arte . The professor has been at the Instituto Superior de Arte since 1998 . In 2008 she was elected vice-president of the Asociación de Músicos in the Unión de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba (UNEAC).

With the Exaudi Chamber Choir , Pérez took part in numerous choir competitions and won several prizes, such as first prize in the chamber choir category at the XIV Béla Bartók International Choir Competition in Debrecen (1990), second prize at the Grand Prix Europeo de Canto Coral in Varna and the First prize at the Harmonie Festival in Lindenholzhausen (1993) and first prizes in the Polyphony (1994) and Habaneras (2005) categories at the Certamen Internacional de Habaneras y Polifonía de Torrevieja in Alicante Alemania . She was awarded the Alejo Carpentier Medal (2002) and the Order of Felix Varela (2004).

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SURNAME Pérez, María Felicia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pérez Arroyo, María Felicia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Cuban choir director and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Havana