Sheila del Bosque

Sheila del Bosque Fuentes is a multi-award-winning flutist, composer, conductor and educator originally from Cuba.

She is proudly a Haynes artist flutist and currently Jazz Committee Chair of the National Flute Association.

Coming from a classical music tradition, her music features contemporary and traditional Afro-Cuban music with the influence of European and jazz ingredients.

Throughout her career, del Bosque has been performing with orchestras such as the Orchestra of Lyceum Mozartiano from Havana adjunct to Stiftung Mozarteum Salzburg, the National Orchestra of Cuba, and the Cuban European Youth Academy and Orchestra. Some of the festivals and stages she has performed include the Kurhaus Wiesbaden at the Rheingau Festival in 2015; and the Konzerthaus Berlin at the Young Euro Classic Festival in 2017.

Sheila has performed in major theaters and festivals in Cuba, South Korea, Germany, Amsterdam, India, Mexico, Panama,; and the USA. She has played for influential personalities such as Pope Francis, Jill Biden, Usher, Bon Jovi, and The Rolling Stones.

Awarded a full-tuition scholarship, del Bosque  holds a B.M. and an M.M. from Berklee College of Music in Film Scoring, Performance, and Conducting.

As a Conductor, del Bosque held the position of assistant conductor of the Berklee Contemporary Symphony Orchestra for one year, led by Dr. Julius P. Williams . In the Fall of 2022, she produced QUEENS, a concert with her own orchestra (*see The New Way Orchestra section)  to create and promote spaces for a new generation of women composers through high-quality performance, education, and community engagement. She collaborated as a conductor on the premiere of "Desert Shelter" at Cullen Theater, Wortham Center, an interdisciplinary exploration and highlighting of the experience of migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border via the Sonoran Desert pass, told through music and dance by J.E. Hernandez in collaboration with The Ponce Project and NobleMotion Dance. One of her most recent collaborations was with the Boston Landsmark Orchestra for the 2023 season at the maestro zone. She was recently selected as one of the fellows for the Carlos Miguel Prieto Conducting Fellowship 2024 Oacademy.

As a Film Composer, del Bosque has collaborated for the company Brave Notes as an assistant composer for movies, shorts, documentaries; and video games. She has composed original music for the Jane Goodall Institute, the short film "The Heatwave" by director Dong-Ren, and her first featured movie, "The Unicorn" by director Cris Hozven.

 Awards and Acknowledgements 

-Carlos Miguel Prieto Conducting Fellowship 2024 Oacademy

-Wayne Shorter Award on Creativity and Innovation |Berklee Global Jazz Institute |Boston, MA USA 2023 

- 1st prize at the Keep an Eye International Jazz Competition | Netherlands 2023 

-Winner of Downbeat 46th Annual Student Music Award Small Jazz Combo Category |USA 2023 

-St. Botolph Club Foundation Emerging Artists Award| Boston, MA USA 2022| 

- Berklee Career Jam Award in the Instrumental Category |Boston, MA (US) 2023 

- Haynes artist |Boston, MA (US) 2023 

- 1st prize in the Jazz Artist Category at the 50th Annual NFA Convention | Chicago, IL (US) 2022 

-Artistic Career Development Grant from the City of Boston | Boston, MA (US) 2022 

- Full tuition scholarship to attend Berklee College of Music Master program in Global Jazz | Boston, MA (US) 2022 

-Tibor Pusztai Award in Conducting | Berklee College of Music, Boston, MA (US) 2022 - Nick Caizza Award in Performance | Berklee College of Music, Boston, MA US 2020 

- North American Scholarship Tour- Full tuition scholarship to attend Berklee College of Music | Boston, MA (US) 2018 

-1st Prize Chamber Music Competition Musicalia | Havana Cuba 2015