Jorge Luis Prats was born on July 3, 1956 in Camagüey, Cuba. At the age of 21, Prats won the Grand Prix at the prestigious “Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibaud” piano competition in Paris.  At the same time he received special prizes for the best interpretation of Maurice Ravel and André Jolivet along with the Chevillon Bonnard and Mohan awards. Other awards include the Gold Medal at the Katia Popova Festival in Bulgaria and First Prize at the Amadeo Roldán Piano Competition in Havana, Cuba.

Prats has been a regular guest professor at the following prestigious institutions:  the National University of Colombia in Bogota, the National School of Arts in Havana, The Center for Fine Arts, Mexico DF, the Conservatory of Cordoba, Spain, and the Glenn Gould Royal Conservatory in Toronto.  He served as the Artistic Director and performed as a soloist with the Cuban National Symphony since 1985.

A consummate performer, Prats’ concert tours have taken him to every nation in the European continent, North, South and Central America, China, Japan and Korea. He has performed as soloist with the Royal Philharmonic in London, the BBC Orchestra, EOS Orchestra of New York and the Dallas Symphony. In Mexico he has performed with the Mexico City Orchestra, Ofunam Orchestra, and the Jalapa Orchestra. In South America he appeared with the Colombia Philharmonic, Venezuela’s “Simon Bolivar” Orchestra, the Municipal Caracas Orchestra.