Maria Mireya Arboleda Cadavid was a Colombian classical pianist and teacher.
12 Facts About Mireya Arboleda
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Maria Mireya Arboleda Cadavid was born in Palmira, Valle del Cauca, Colombia on July 1,1928 to Fernando Arboleda Lopez, the mayor of Palmira and Rosa Cadavid Medina along with five other sisters, Esmeralda, Pubenza, Fabiola, Violeta, and Soffy.
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Mireya Arboleda was named after the poem Mireya by Frederic Mistral.
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Mireya Arboleda went on to study at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, a very prestigious music school.
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At the conservatory, Mireya Arboleda received her Title in Music and Artistic Diploma in 1957 under the tutelage of Hungarian pianist Miklos Schwalb.
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Also in 1957, Mireya Arboleda participated in the International Piano Competition in Rio de Janeiro which inspired her to move to Paris and earn a Masters of Piano Studies at the Conservatoire de Paris, another very prestigious music school.
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At the conservatory, Mireya Arboleda became the protege of critically acclaimed pianists such as French musician Nadia Boulanger and French-Lithuanian musician Vlado Perlemuter.
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Mireya Arboleda's return to Colombia following her studying abroad was "a revelation for those who still doubted women's abilities".
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Mireya Arboleda performed many times in her home-country of Colombia such as concerts at the Luis Angel Arango Library in Bogota, and the Leon de Greiff Library in Medellin.
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Mireya Arboleda later became a head music professor at the National University of Colombia, spending around 30 years of her life in teaching altogether.
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Mireya Arboleda was married to Flavio Cruz Dominguez, a lawyer, who later died.
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On February 21,2021, Mireya Arboleda died at age 92 in Bogota.