[1] Cecilio Tieles began his piano studies in Havana, Cuba, with professors Arturo Marcelín and César Pérez Sentenat.
From 1958 to 1966, Tieles studied at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow with professors Samuel Feinberg, Ludmila Roschina and Stanislav Neuhaus.
The Tieles duet have received great accolades from music specialists in several countries and has accumulated a vast repertoire of works from different styles and epochs.
Due to their high professional level, many outstanding composers, among which we can mention Ramón Barce, Xavier Benguerel, Harold Gramatges, José Ardévol, Nilo Rodríguez, Gottfried Glöckner and Salvador Pueyo, have dedicated original pieces to them.
[3] The experience and professional level of Cecilio Tieles has allowed him to develop an outstanding pedagogical labor in Cuba, as well as outside the country.
In Spain, Cecilio Tieles has combined his work as concert pianist with his pedagogical activities, and his role as professor has been outstanding in Catalonia.
The defense of his doctoral thesis at the Instituto Superior de Arte of Havana, was the first presented by a musician in that educational institution.
His participation in the production of the Dictionary of the Spanish and Hispanic-American music demonstrates high level of Cecilio Tieles as musicologic investigator.