''His whole achievement has earn him a top place within our Cuban culture'', expressed Harold Gramatches, President of the UNEAC's Musicians Association, referring to master Guido López Gavilán, during an homage ceremony recently celebrated at National Museum of Music for his sixty birthday.

Composer, graduated of choral and orchestral direction, Guido belongs to a bundle of musicians shaped by their spontaneity and impetus. He has exceptionally contributed to the development of Cuban symphonic and orchestral movement, being founder also of Música Eterna Ensemble and a restless promoter of Cuban culture.

Winner of numerous national and international prizes and recognitions due to his great talent, underscores in a special way, his pedagogical labor. Guido is a transparent man, irradiating inspiration for the rest of his family, evenly consacrated also to musical labor.

Born in Matanzas city, music has always been an indivisible part of his life. His parents were singers rehearsing at home with Taicuba Quartet. His mother teached him how to play piano and his father showed him the first guitar chords. This musical pasion joined his early-years taste for painting.
Guido has been one of the main supports in the emergence and constancy of Festival of Contemporary Music having great significance for Cuban culture closely related to outstanding creators from all over the world, keeping in touch with some other streams and other ways to conceive and perform music.

He thinks sharing the scene with his family is the prettiest thing he has ever experienced, it give him great satisfaction, because, it means to work with high-quality artists, his wife Teresa Junco, with whom he played long time ago at the conservatoire and his children Ilmar and Aldito, playing with them since they were very young.

Music means life for him!.

(*)Information gathered from an interview made to master Guido López-Gavilán, by the journalism student Patricia Martínez Chiroles, published on February 3, 2004 in Juventud Rebelde Journal.