Carlos Fariñas

Carlos Fariñas (1934–2002) was one of the most important masters of the Cuban avant-garde in the 1960s along with Leo Brouwer and Juan Blanco. He received his first musical orientation in the family. After that, he moved to La Habana, Cuba, and was a disciple of the masters Jose Ardevol, Harold Gramatges and Enrique Gonzales Mántici. In 1956 he attended to the courses taught by Aaron Copland on the Tanglewood Music Center in the United States. Between 1961 and 1963, he studied at the Moscow Conservatory. Fariñas also composed in several modern techniches and styles from traditional symphonic music to computer music. In 1989, he created the Electroacoustic and Computer Music Laboratory at the Art Superior Institute in La Habana, Cuba.