Ms. Zayas has performed throughout Europe, South America and the U.S. Known for her exquisite performances of Chopin, she performed this music at Newport Music Festival, 2000 World Piano Pedagogy Conference in Las Vegas, and at Piano Festival Northwest 2003 in Portland. Ms. Zayas is regularly invited by the prestigious Serate Musicali to give recitals at Verdi Hall in Milan and has performed with the Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and the Zeeuws Orchestra in the Netherlands, the Orquesta Sinfónica de Radio Televisión Española in Madrid, the Venezuela Symphony Orchestra, and with orchestras such as the San Diego Symphony and Rochester Philharmonic. She has performed at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall; Verdi Hall, Milan; Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; the French Embassy, Washington, DC; Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall, Sarasota, Florida; and other venues. Her performances have been broadcast by National Public Radio and WQXR and her recording labels include Music & Arts Programs of America, Albany Records and Zayas Masterworks Inc.

Juana Zayas attended the Peyrellade Conservatory of Music in Havana and earned a Gold Medal. She left Cuba to attend the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris and earned First Prize in piano and chamber music.

Ms. Zayas married in Versailles then moved to New York, where she studied with Adele Marcus, David Bar-Illan and Josef Raieff. Harold C. Schonberg of the New York Times said about her playing: “She filters Chopin’s notes through a fertile mind, with a very personal but never overdone kind of romanticism that looks back to the great pianists of a previous age.”

The critical acclaim that Juana Zayas has consistently received over the years has touched on virtually every facet of music-making.