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José Antonio Cubela, raised in Miami, Florida, received an Associate in Arts with honors from Miami Dade Community College. In 2002, Mr. Cubela graduated Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Central Florida in Orlando. At Texas Christian University, Mr. Cubela graduated with a Master of Music in Piano Performance in 2004.

Mr. Cubela has been an adjudicator for the DMTA, Fort Worth Music Teachers’ Association, MCMTA, National Federation of Music Clubs-Junior Festival, Piano Forum, Steinway Young Artist Competition and Weatherford MTA piano competitions and festivals, and the Memphis International Piano Festival and Competition. He was the President of the Fort Worth Music Teachers’ Association between 2015-2017. In addition to being active in several organizations, he was one of the performing artists for the Van Cliburn Foundation’s Musical Awakenings Education Programs, also known as Cliburn in the Classroom. He was professor of primary and secondary piano at Texas Wesleyan University in Fort Worth and Tarrant County Community College, NE campus. Many of Mr. Cubela’s piano students have won piano competitions and have been accepted to prestigious universities around the U.S.A pursuing degrees in music. Currently, Mr. Cubela was the piano teacher at Gunn Fine Arts Dual Language Academy and is one of the founding directors of the Fanfare Piano Festival for the ɫ��������һ����������. He is currently teaching piano and theory at ɫ��������һ����������’s Center for Visual and Performing Arts.

In addition to his teaching responsibilities, Mr. Cubela is an active performer both as a soloist and collaborative pianist. In the summer of 2017, He spent six weeks adjudicating and working with students and their teachers under the auspices of the International Piano Performance Committee in Taiwan. Mr. Cubela performed at the Conservatório de Música de Águeda and Centro de Artes de Águeda in Portugal with colleague Doris Gameiro. He also performed at the Museu do Traje in São Brás de Alportel and Casa Manuel Teixeira Gomes in Portimão, Portugal with colleagues Doris Gameiro and Svetlana Martins(Bakushina). In April 2023, Mr. Cubela collaborated with Grammy, Emmy and Tony nominated choreographer Lars Lubovitch for the Bruce Wood Dance Company’s Gala at the Moody Performance Hall in Dallas. Finally, he recorded with Alexander Kerr, Concertmaster of the Dallas Symphony and David Cooper, Principle Horn of the Chicago Symphony in collaboration with East Dallas Christian Church Chancel Choir under the direction of Keith Critcher. The recording was released at the beginning of 2020.