Frank Fernández, our brilliant pianist, was born on March 16, 1944 in Mayarí Abajo, former province from the eastern part of the country, so he is celebrating in this 2004 his 60 birthday. As son of Altagracia Tamayo, piano professor and director of Orbón Academy, he found a proper ambience to develop his musical vocation in such a way that being only four years old, as Mozart, his fingers looked and found the magic secret of harmony, as a the keys right response for this complete devotion since his early years.

Some elder relatives usually narrate how this little boy ignored his habitual toys to carefully watch his mother's fingers running along the piano keys, entwining art of sounds with time.
In this way, fueled by his mother's encourage and wisdom and the classical studies of other professors from Orbón Academy, Frank celebrated his 15 birthday holding professional and skilfull abilities as pianist and composer.
Our master is also celebrating his 45 anniversary of artistic life, along which he has gained not oly the appraisal and recognition of his people but also the favorable cultural assessment of great musicians all world wide, sustained by the large amount of opinions coming from luminaries about the treasure he stored.

However, Frank has not only studied classics, he has enriched also the popular music, rising it up to symphonic category, as he do it with Ernesto Lecuona's La Comparsa, Tema de Amor and Zapateo por derecho.

This arrangement of cult and popular deserves a decima:

Cuando se te manifiesta
Beethoven en cada mano,
Hay Orquesta para Piano
Porque hay Piano para Orquesta.
De igual modo en una fiesta
De campesino recreo,
Guayabera viste Orfeo
Y te ofrece su armonía
Para que a la sinfonía
Eleves el Zapateo.

*) Cuban Poet.

See discography of Frank Fernández in our Cuban Music Shop.