Soloist, chamber musician, composer, educator, conductor, professor of flute wellesley college
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Sheila del Bosque Fuentes is a multi-award-wining flutist, composer, educator and conductor originally from Cuba.
Winner of the 1st prize in the Jazz Artist Category at the 50th Annual NFA Convention, Sheila has performed in major theaters and festivals in Cuba, South Korea, Mexico, Germany; and the USA. She has played for influential personalities such as Pope Francis, Jill Biden, Usher, Bon Jovi, and The Rolling Stones.
Throughout her career, del Bosque has been performing with orchestras such as the Orchestra of Lyceum Mozartiano from Havana adjunct to Stiftung Mozarteum Salzburg, the National Orchestra of Cuba, and the Cuban European Youth Academy and Orchestra. Some of the festivals and stages with these orchestras include the Kurhaus Wiesbaden at the Rheingau Festival in 2015; and the Konzerthaus Berlin at the Young Euro Classic Festival in 2017.
Awarded a full-tuition scholarship, del Bosque enrolled in 2018 at the Berklee College of Music, where she graduated with a dual major in Performance and Film Scoring and minor in Orchestral Conducting. At Berklee, she shared the stage with musicians such as Paquito d’Rivera, Omar Hakim, Danilo Perez, Berta Rojas, and Aida Cuevas. The Sheila del Bosque Quartet represented Berklee at the opening of the 49th annual Next Generation Jazz Festival in Monterey and recorded her original “Si mi Isla fuese Niño” and a “Two Track” concert for the Berklee YouTube Channel. These projects feature contemporary and traditional Afro-Cuban music with the influence of European and jazz ingredients.
As a Conductor, in 2021 del Bosque held the position of assistant conductor of the Berklee Contemporary Symphony Orchestra led by Dr. Julius P. Williams. In the Fall of 2022, she created her own orchestra to promote spaces for minorities through high-quality performance, education, and community engagement. She is currently collaborating as a conductor on the premiere of "Desert Shelter", an interdisciplinary exploration and highlighting of the experience of migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border via the Sonoran Desert pass, by the composer J.E. Hernandez in collaboration with The Ponce Project and NobleMotion Dance.
In 2022 Sheila was appointed as a flute professor at Wellesley College. Some other awards include the Nick Caizza Award in performance, and the Tibor Pusztai Award in conducting.