The opening performance will bring pianists Gonzalo Rubalcaba, from Cuba,
and Arturo O´Farril, from the United States, accompanied by the National
Symphony Orchestra directed by maestro Enrique Perez Mesa, on stage; as
well as the Entrevoces Choir directed by Digna Guerra.

The Jazz Plaza Festival, the biggest event of the genre in the country,
will be dedicated this year to classic music in jazz. It will be hosted by
different venues in Havana and will include the Seventh International Jazz
Colloquium for the presentation of master lectures and the screening of
films related to the event.

Cuba will be represented by such excellent artists and groups as Alexis
Bosch and the Jazz Cubano Project, NG la Banda with Jose Luis Cortes and
his Camerata de Flautas, Bobby Carcasses, Habana Sax and Emilio Morales.

Coming from abroad are US saxophonist Neil Leonard, with the Berklee
Faculty Jazz, and the groups Laberinto del Caos, from Mexico, and Naad
Braahnam, from India, among others.