Mirta Gómez received her early piano training from her mother in her native Cuba. She continued her musical education at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and at the Juilliard School in New York.
Ms. Gómez' recent performances include recitals at the Leo S. Bing Auditorium at the Los Angeles County Museum in Los Angeles, CA. and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
Ms. Gómez' international tours have included performances at the Grand Theatre de Geneve, Switzerland; Hochschule fur Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin, Germany; Civic Center Auditorium, Monterey, California; and the United Nations Concert Hall, Town Hall, Carnegie Recital Hall, and Merkin Hall in New York City.
Mirta Gómez is a Steinway Artist.
After winning numerous national competitions and a debut performance at the Gran Teatro de La Habana García Lorca, at age 18 Sahily Canovas was selected to pursue advanced studies in piano in the USSR. There, she studied under Valery Kozlov at the Kiev State Conservatory, and with Anatoly Harchenko at the Odessa State Conservatory, where she graduated with a Master of Fine Arts in Piano Performance. Sahily has also pursued advanced studies under the guidance of Santiago Rodríguez.
Sahily’s performing career has included solo piano recitals in the Rachmaninoff Hall at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, the Prokofiev Festival at the Kiev State Conservatory in Kiev, and at music festivals in Camagüey, Cuba, and Miami, Florida. Her chamber music performances include collaborations with soprano Eglise Gutiérrez, and with her daughter, cellist Anna Litvinenko. Together with pianist and Steinway Artist Mirta Gómez, Sahily founded the piano duo En Blanco y Negro with a debut performance at the Steinway Piano Gallery in Miami, Florida, where she resides. Sahily has a devoted following of piano students and is Musical Director at St. Dominic Catholic Church in Miami, where she also directs a concert series featuring talented young musicians and distinguished guest artists.