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Luis Ernesto Peña Laguna is a Canadian composer born in 1983 in Las Tunas, Cuba. He began his musical studies at the ‘El Cucalambé’ vocational arts school in his home town. At this school, he studied primary and secondary music (between 1993 and 1998), simultaneously obtaining his first diploma in singing and choral conducting. In 2002, he graduated with honours from the choral conducting programme at the ‘Esteban Salas’ conservatory in Santiago de Cuba. In 2003, he was admitted to Cuba's University of the Arts in the Music Composition and Orchestral Conducting programmes, which he completed with ‘Gold Title’ and the University's ‘Best Academic Average’. He holds a Master's degree in the Formative Process of Artistic Education (Music Pedagogy) from the University of the Arts of Cuba (2013) and a Master's degree in Music Composition from the University of Montreal (2017). He is currently pursuing a doctorate in music composition at the Université de Montréal under the supervision of Jimmie LeBlanc. Over the course of his career, he has studied with Alan Belkin, Juan Piñera, Harold Gramatges, Roberto Valera, Guido López Gavilán, Enrique Pérez Mesa, Calixto Álvarez, Ileana Z. García, Grizel Hernández Baguer and Juan Filiú. Between 2013 and 2014, he studied French at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM). He is an Associate Composer of the Canadian Music Centre (CMC), a member of the Canadian League of Composers (CLC), and a member of the Canadian Academy of Music.