Sergio Barroso
Sergio Barroso (born in Havana, Cuba) studied piano, theory and organ with Alfredo Levi, César Pérez Sentenat, Edgardo Martín, and Alfredo Díez Nieto at the Havana National “Amadeo Roldán” Conservatory (1950-66). He did post-graduate studies in composition and theory with Václav Dobiás and Karel Janáček at the Superior Academy of Music (AMJ) in Prague, and privately with Alois Hába in 1966. He also studied conducting with Manuel Duchesne and Gonzalo Romeu at the Superior Institute of Arts (ISA) of the University of Havana and computer music with John Chowning and Jean-Claude Risset at CCRMA, Stanford University (USA).
Barroso’s works have been performed at music centres and events in the Americas, Europe and Asia including the Lincoln Centre (New York City)
Has received numerous awards in Cuba, Canada, Europe, Latin America, and the USA including the Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award (2000)
Barroso’s music appears on the labels Areito, SNE, Centredisc, CBC Records, Bonk, Blue Note, and Empreintes Digitales.
As a keyboardist, he has primarily performed his own music and baroque music, although he has also commissioned and premiered several works for keyboard controlled synthesizers by Canadian composers. He has performed at the National Arts Centre (Ottawa), Ircam and UNESCO (Paris), South Bank Centre (London, UK), Pollack Hall, Chapelle historique du Bon-Pasteur (Montréal), Glenn Gould Studio (Toronto), as well as across Cuba and in Banff, Bourges, Brussels, Calgary, Kingston, Madrid, Mexico City, Miami, Oslo, Prague, Seattle, and Vancouver.
Barroso has taught composition, advanced polyphonic techniques and music history at Superior Institute of Arts (ISA) of the University of Havana (1975-80)
Barroso served as secretary-general of the Cuban section of the International Music Council (IMC) (1976-80). Sergio Barroso has lived in Canada since 1980.
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Sergio Barroso has received awards at the following contests
- International Rostrum of Electroacoustic Music (IREM): 1990
