Luis Enrique Juliá, composer and guitarist, was nominated for a Latin Grammy award in 2009 in Best Classical Album category for Concierto de Aniversario, a double CD he produced for Pro Arte Musical, containing works by Mendelssohn and Brahms as well as Juliá's own five-movement Quintet for Clarinet and Strings (2008), performed by Ricardo Morales, principal clarinetist of the Philadelphia Orchestra, and the Pacifica Quartet, Musical America's 2009 Ensemble of the Year and quartet-in-residence of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art from 2009 to 2012.
Although self-taught in the field of composition, Juliá was trained in the tradition of the classical guitar by José Tomás in Spain, Rey de la Torre in California, and Leonardo Egúrbida in Puerto Rico.
Dr. Isaac Lausell, also a student of maestro Juliá, is currently in the faculty of Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, teaching both classic and jazz guitar, and has published four books.
Luis Enrique Juliá has appeared in concerts, lectures, recitals, radio and television in the United States, Spain, Italy, France, Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, and throughout the Caribbean.
His interest in interdisciplinary exploration has led him to collaborate with such artists as baritone Justino Díaz, violinist Henry Hutchinson Negrón, Argentinean actress Norma Aleandro, Cuban filmmaker Enrique Pineda Barnet, painter Rafael Trelles, literary critic Mercedes López-Baralt, and most recently with jazz legendary double-bassist Eddie Gomez.