The Guantanamo artist, arranger and composer, specialist in choral music, Modesto Conrado Monier Ribeaux, received tYouth Teacher Award granted by the Hermanos Saíz Association to those who are national benchmarks for their works and qualities as professionals and human beings.
When pointing out the reasons that supported the delivery, it was meant that the young Cuban creators awarded Monier Ribeaux, for being one of the most transcendental figures of Guantanamo and Cuban culture, in general, in addition to the fact that many of his compositions are part of the repertoire of prestigious groups in the country and the world.
Conrado Monier, who also holds the 2015 Cubadisco Honor Award, the Distinction for National Culture and the 2019 Annual Music Award, among other awards, has contributed to the training of generations of creators from the Antonia Luisa Cabal school in Guantánamo; the Esteban Salas School, in Santiago de Cuba, and the Concert Band itself.
He also stands out as a record producer with phonograms such as Semblanza Musical Guantanamera (1985); Children sing (1995), which won the EGREM Prize for Children's Music; Mi Aldea (2004) by the Provincial Concert Band, and Reparador de Sueños, by the Schola Cantorum Coralina, which won a special Cubadisco award in 2009.
He has to his credit the first adaptation for the Symphony Orchestra of a piece of the ancestral and autochthonous changüí genre, performed at the closing ceremony of Cubadisco 2010, in the Covarrubias Hall of the National Theater of Cuba.
Another success is the vocal and instrumental version of the North American piece Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Old Oak Tree, performed by more than 100 concert bands and choirs in the country, on September 12, 2013, calling for the freedom of the five Cuban prisoners in the United States.
Seven were the cultural personalities recognized with the Master of Youth Award in Cuba, among them Augusto Blanca Gil, composer and singer, founder of the Nueva Trova; the dancer, choreographer and director Rosario Cárdenas Prieto; the essayist, literary critic and researcher Cira Romero Rodríguez; the plastic artist Joel Jover Llenderrosos; the historian of the University of Havana and National History Prize Francisca López Civeira, and Ernesto Rafael Valdés Barceló, National Radio Prize (2007).
Dairon Martínez Tejeda
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