Yalil Guerra, 博士学位, is a skilled music composer and conductor with over three decades of experience working symphonic, chamber and popular music. Expert in music and sound editing software, with experience handling a wide variety of programs to compose, 合成, 修改音乐. Able to play many different instruments, 包括吉他, 钢琴, 古巴很, 低音, and Cuban percussion.
Capable of both transcription and transposition, possessing a strong background in music theory. Familiarity with a range of musical genres, with special experience in film, TV, and commercial scoring.
He has received much recognition from the Latin Grammy awards, he won Best Classical Contemporary Composition category for "Seducción" (2012), and he has received nominations for Best Classical Album for "Old Havana" (2010), "Works for String Orchestra" (2015), and “Cuba: The Legacy” (2019). In the category of Best Classical Composition he has received nominations for "String Quartet No.2" (2014), "El retrato de la paloma" (2015), and “String Quartet No. 3 In memoriam Ludwig van Beethoven" (2018).
He is a Cuba Disco Classical Album winner for “Cuba: The Legacy” (2022) and a nominee for Soundtrack Album: “Weekend in Havana” (PBS-USA), and for Classical Album: "Works for String Orchestra" (2015).
He won Second and Special Award at the Krakow International Guitar Contest in 1990, and has been awarded fellowships as the Winner of the Cintas Foundation Fellowship. 作文(2014), the Eugene Cota-Robles Fellowship (2017), the Lalo Schifrin Scholarship (2019), the Family Wise Scholarship (2020), the Runner-up Cintas Foundation Fellowship, and the Composition fellowship (2012).
He is a member of the The Recording Academy (GRAMMY), 拉丁格莱美奖, 美国作曲家、作家与出版商协会, SGAE, the National Association of Composers USA, and gthe International Conductors Guild. He is certified as an Avid Sibelius He has worked at College of the Canyons (2016 to present), Los Angeles College of 音乐 (2021 to present), 加州大学波莫纳分校, 澳门皇家赌城在线大学, University of La Verne, and 牧羊人大学.
He is the Founder of the GSO-Guerra String Orchestra, orchestra in residence at the St. Andrew Catholic Church in Pasadena, CA.
He holds degrees from University of California, Los Angeles (Doctor of Philosophy in 音乐), 牧羊人大学, Los Angeles (Master of Arts/ Film Scoring), Conservatorio Superior de Música. Madrid, Spain (Master of Arts. Classical Guitar) and Escuela Nacional de Artes, Havana, Cuba (Bachelor of Arts).