Roberto Urbay
Roberto Urbay Carrillo (born August 8, 1953 in Havana ) is a Cuban pianist and music teacher .
The son of the trumpeter and long-time director of the Banda de Conciertos de Caibarién , Marcos Antonio Urbay Serafín , was a student of Margot Rojas Mendoza and Silvio Rodríguez Cárdenas at the Escuela Nacional de Música and in 1973 at the Moscow Conservatory of Jewhen Mohylewskyj . In postgraduate courses in Hungary from 1986 to 1987 he studied the works of Franz Liszt with György Cziffra and the works of Béla Bartók with Zoltán Kocsis .
He went on concert tours through several European countries, the Soviet Union, Korea, Japan, the United States, the Dominican Republic, Chile and Argentina, participated in the Queen Elizabeth, the Van Cliburn and the Franz Liszt piano competitions (1978, 1981 and 1986) and received the Prize of the Unión de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba in 1973 and the Chamber Music Prize at the Interpodium Festival in Bratislava in 1977 . He taught at the Conservatorio Amadeo Roldán and the Instituto Superior de Arte and gave piano classes at the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo in Mendoza.
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- EcuRed: Roberto Urbay Carillo
- Roberto Urbay on MusicBrainz (English)
- Roberto Urbay at Allmusic (English)
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| SURNAME | Urbay, Roberto |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Urbay Carrillo, Roberto (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Cuban pianist and music teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 8, 1953 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Havana |