(b. 4 March 1946, Havana).
Cuban composer, now resident in Canada, of mostly stage, orchestral and chamber works that have been performed in the Americas, Asia and Europe; he is also active as a keyboardist.
Mr. Barroso studied composition, organ and piano with Alfredo Díaz Nieto, Alfredo Levi, Edgardo Martín, and César Pérez Sentenat at the Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana from 1950–66. He had postgraduate studies in composition with Václav Dobiáš, Alois Hába and Karel Jane?ek at the Akademie múzických um?ní v Praze – Academy of Performing Arts in Prague from 1966–68 and also studied conducting with Manuel Duchesne and Gonzalo Romeu at the Instituto Superior de Música de la Universidad de La Habana. He then studied computer music with John Chowning and Jean-Claude Risset at Stanford University.
Among his many honours are a prize in the Concours International de Musique Électroacoustique de Bourges (1980), the New York Cintra/Arts International Composition Award (1999) and the Victor M. Lynch-Staunton Award from the Canada Council for the Arts (2000). His music has represented both Canada and Cuba at the UNESCO TRIMALCA (1979), the UNESCO International Rostrum of Composers in Paris (1980, 1995) and the UNESCO International Rostrum of Electroacoustic Music (1990, 1994). His works have been performed throughout the Americas, as well as in Belgium, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Japan, Monaco, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, and the UK.
As a keyboardist, he has primarily performed his own music on piano and music from the Baroque on harpsichord, although he has also given the premières of several works for harpsichord, piano and synthesizer.
He is also active in other positions. He worked as a broadcaster of new music at the Instituto Cubano de Radio y Televisión and as a music critic for the daily newspaper Juventud Rebelde in Havana from 1969–80. He served as music director of the Biblioteca Cubana Nacional José Martí from 1970–72 and the Universidad de La Habana from 1972–74. In addition, he served as chair of the department of development of the Ministerio de Cultura in Cuba and as secretary-general of the section in Cuba of the UNESCO International Music Council from 1976–80.
Mr. Barroso taught composition and music theory at the Conservatorio Nacional de La Habana, the Escuela Nacional de Música in Havana and the Instituto Superior de Música de la Universidad de La Habana from 1968–80. He has also taught at the Conservatorio Nacional de Música in Mexico City and at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Trent University in Ontario and the University of Victoria in British Columbia.
He has lived in Canada since 1981.
Web: http://composers21.com/compdocs/barrosos.htm (2015)

Compositore, pianista ed organista cubano nato a La Habana nel 1946. Ha studiato nel suo paese e presso il 'Prague Superior Accademy of Music'. Ha inoltre studiato Computer Music al CCMA, Stanford University (California).