Hermanos Saíz Association to Present 2025 Maestro de Juventudes Award

The Hermanos Saíz Association (AHS) has announced the list of distinguished figures who will receive the Maestro de Juventudes Award in 2025 — the organization’s highest honor, bestowed upon leading Cuban cultural personalities whose careers have made a lasting impact and contributed significantly to the education of younger generations.

The official ceremony will take place on October 22, as part of the celebrations marking the 39th anniversary of the AHS. According to the institution’s announcement on its official Facebook page, the event will be held in a venue of great symbolic value for Cuban culture.

Among the honorees are Carlos Alberto “Tin” Cremata Malberti, educator and director of the children’s theatre company La Colmenita; Fernando Hechavarría Gibert, actor and theatre director; and Miriam Ramos Heres, singer, songwriter, and guitarist, recipient of the 2024 National Music Award.

The list also includes Roberto Valera Chamizo, composer and National Music Award laureate; Amaury Pérez Vidal, singer-songwriter and poet; Isabel Monal Rodríguez, researcher and National Social Sciences Award winner; and María Elena Llana Castro, writer, journalist, and professor.

Other recipients are Rafael Zarza González, visual artist and National Plastic Arts Award laureate; Luciano Castillo Domínguez, film critic and historian; Rafael Lay Bravo, violinist, composer, and orchestra conductor; and Juan González Fife, director of the Teatro Andante group in Granma province.

The Maestro de Juventudes Award honors creators who, beyond their artistic achievements, have guided and inspired younger generations in their cultural and human development. As noted by Yasel Toledo Garnache, national president of the AHS, the awardees “teach as much through their classrooms as through their works, and they uplift others through their willingness to help those who are just beginning.”

Translated by Luis E. Amador Dominguez