The Holguín Symphony Orchestra (OSH) is Cuba’s youngest symphony ensemble. Founded in 2000 by pianist and professor Cecilio Gómez, it is conducted by Harold Ricardo Corella and its assistant conductor is Orestes Saavedra. The orchestra is made up of students, who make up more than fifty percent of its roster.

Their national debut took place three years after their founding, at the 75th anniversary concert at the Amadeo Roldán Auditorium Theater (Calle Rastro No. 1, Old Havana, Havana), where they shared the stage with renowned Cuban pianist Frank Fernández.

To celebrate the tenth anniversary of the founding of the Holguín Symphony Orchestra, the orchestra offered a concert attended by hundreds of spectators at the Holguín Art Center. On this occasion, it performed Johannes Brahms’s Symphony No. 4 and selections from Musorgsky-Ravel’s Pictures at an Exhibition, among others. The orchestra was accompanied, among others, by local tenor Yuri Hernández, first soloist of the National Lyric Theater, with whom it performed famous arias such as “Una furtiva lágrima” (A Furtive Tear) from Donizzetti’s opera The Elixir of Love; and “Recóndita armonía” (Concealed Harmony) from Puccini’s opera Tosca.

The Holguín Symphony Orchestra has performed major works such as Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and the 1812 Overture by Russian composer Pyor Igor Tchaikovsky.

She has participated in all the national symphony orchestra meetings, where she has been praised for her work. She has also been conducted by renowned national and international musicians such as Leo Brouwer, Iván del Prado, and Maria Elena Mendiola, as well as by the American Bernard Rubisntein and the Mexican Guillermo Villareal.