Jenny Peña Campo

A Havana-born composer and arranger, Ms. Peña graduated with superior honors with a degree in violin from Universidad de las Artes (ISA).

She started her violin studies at age five and has participated in numerous competitions for both violin and composition including Belgian’s International Competition Competition (1992), Cuba’s Amadeo Roldan violin competition (1993), and Colombia’s Ibero-American José White violin competition (2003), among others. Ms. Peña has performed in the violin sections of many orchestras across Cuba and Europe. With the string quintet Caribe Nostrum, she has performed for projects in Austria and at Washington D.C.’s Kennedy Center as part of the Artes de Cuba festival in 2018.

The works of Ms. Peña have been featured in international festivals such as Germany’s Rheingau Musik Festival (2015) and at the Philarmonic of Paris (2019). Together with primo ballerina and choreographer Norge Cedeño Raffo, she has collaborated on a multidisciplinary work which was presented in Havana in 2019.

A dedicated educator, Ms. Peña has worked with youth orchestras such as Nicaragua’s Orquesta Juvenil Rubén Darío and currently teaches violin at the Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana.