She studied in Spain and France, and toured in Europe for several years before returning to Cuba, where she taught for most of the rest of her life.

[2] She was given a recommendation by the professor José Marín Varona of Camagüey to the National Conservatory of Music of Havana, an institution that had been founded by the Dutch composer and pianist Hubert de Blanck.

[1] In 1913 the public recitals of Ernesto Lecuona and Dulce María Serret made a great impression on Margot Rojas Mendoza, who was then a child.

[3] In 1915 Dulce María Serret was award a scholarship by the Havana city council to study in Spain at the Madrid Royal Conservatory.

At the age of 22 she moved to France in 1920 and attended the Schola Cantorum de Paris, where she studied romanticism and ancient and modern music.