The Cuban pianist Gustavo Corrales Romero has enjoyed 17 years of professional musical training in the solid tradition of the Russian school for piano since he was 7. After the first 7 mandatory years at elementary level in his province Guantánamo, he was selected at 14 to continue with pre-university studies at the prestigious National School of Art (ENA) in Havana, Cuba. At the age of 18 he became licensed as an Instrumentalist and Piano Instructor and won a national competition awarding him a scholarship. This enabled him to study with professor MijaÃl Leonidovich Meshlumov at the world famous P.I. Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow for one year. After this he returned to Cuba to complete his training with a Master Degree in Music, specializing in Piano at the Superior Institute for the Arts (the ISA conservatory) in Havana. At 25, he was offered the position of Professor of Piano and Chamber Music. During his three years in this position he completed several post-graduate studies with international guest professors such as the Argentine pianist Miguel Angel Scheba, the Spanish pianist Ricardo Requejo, the Canadian Dr. Dujka Smoje, the Cuban Dr. Ela Egozcue and Bulgarian professor Radosvet Boyadjiev. In 1997, at age 27, he was accepted as a select member of the Cuban National Association for Writers and Artists (UNEAC).
