Juan Piñera (born 1949 in Havana) is a Cuban musician who during his long career has covered a wide professional spectrum as performer, composer, professor and musical adviser.
[1] After some time he continued his piano studies with Cuban professor César Pérez Sentenat and with Silvio Rodríguez Cárdenas at Conservatorio Alejandro García Caturla in Marianao, Havana.
In 1968 Piñera followed up with his piano studies at the Escuela Nacional de Artes, where he received instruction from Silvio Rodríguez Cárdenas, Ninowska Fernández-Britto and Ana Martínez Estrada.
After graduating in 1972, he studied musical composition with José Ardévol and Roberto Valera at the Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA).
Juan Piñera has created an ample catalog that include numerous compositions for soloists, symphonic, chamber and vocal ensembles, as well as music for TV programs, movies and didactical purposes.