BENITEZ, Paula Pineiro

Paula Piñeiro Benítez was born in Havana, Cuba. She graduated in 2023 from the University of Arts (ISA), in two specialties: Musical Composition, with Professor Juan Piñera, and Oboe with Professor Lauren Ríos. She has also attended to a Hochschule fur Katholische Kirchemusik und Musikpadagogik Regensburg’s sacred music course developed in Havana. As part of her compositional work in the current year 2025, Piñeiro wrote several works for solo instruments and chamber music, commissioned and premiered by artists and ensembles of international stature such as the bassoonist Natasha Pizarro, the clarinetist Benjamin Maneyrol, the Ensemble Ekkip, as well as the Sur editorial of contemporary Latin American music. Piñeiro also composed and premiered her chamber opera EroS as part of the Puccini 2025 Chamber Opera Festival on 3 May at the Teatro di San Girolamo in Lucca, Italy.