Margot Rojas Mendoza

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1973

Margot Rojas Mendoza (born March 24, 1903 in Veracruz , † November 1, 1996 in Havana ) was a Cuban pianist and music teacher.

The daughter of a Mexican and a Cuban had her first music lessons at the age of five from an aunt in her hometown. When she was young, she came to Havana with her family and studied music theory with José Molina Torres and Rafaela Serrano Rodríguez and piano with Consuelo Quesada and Hubert de Blanck at the conservatory . In 1919 she took piano lessons in New York with Alexander Lambert , the last piano student of Franz Liszt and piano accompanist of Joseph Joachim .

In 1920 Rojas made her debut as a pianist in the Sala Espadero of the Havana Conservatory, and in 1923 she performed at the city's Teatro Nacional . In 1924 she performed Chopin's First Piano Concerto with the Orquesta Filarmónica de La Habana under the direction of Pedro Sanjuán . With the same orchestra she performed Rachmaninoff's Second Piano Concerto in 1930 under the direction of Gonzalo Roig .

From 1933 to 1937 Rojas lived and worked in Mexico. In 1957 she gave her last concert as a pianist, after which she devoted herself to music education. She held the chair for piano at the Conservatorio “Amadeo Roldán” and led classes at the Escuela Nacional de Arte . Her numerous students include Frank Fernández , Jorge Luis Prats , Yleana Bautista , Roberto Urbay , César López , Hilda Elvira Santiago , Lucía Huergo , Carlos Malcolm , Carmen Collado López , María Felicia Pérez , Raúl Iglesias , José María Vitier and José Piñeiro Díaz .

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