J. Felix Melo is a professional pianist, musical director, composer, producer, and arranger from Havana, Cuba. As a pianist, he has performed with famous orchestras on various stages in countries such as Cuba, Portugal, Mexico, Kazakhstan, and the United States.
He began his piano studies at the age of 6 at the A. G. Caturla conservatory. He continued to study Piano and Music Theory at the National School of Music (ENA), and later, at the University of the Arts (ISA), he studied music composition with the distinguished Cuban composer Juan Piñera.
J. Felix Melo has been teaching piano, solfège, and harmony since 2005, and since 2016, he teaches orchestration, composition, and modern piano lessons. He also created a course called “Multitask Keyboard Performance” for students interested in production, composition, and live performance of different instruments, genres, and styles through a synthesizer.
He specializes in Jazz and Latin music performance. Within music production and composition, he has composed music for different musical pieces ranging from symphonic and chamber music to music for shows, short films, and musical theater plays, as well as his own and commissioned songs of different genres.
He values understanding the dreams and aspirations of his students to learn together and guide them toward the realization of their goals. Additionally, his teaching style is highly adaptable to the needs of each student, with a focus on making classes more fun, particularly for young children, to ensure their introduction to the piano and music is an engaging experience of both knowledge and enjoyment.