Sue Herrod

British composer/songwriter SUE HERROD has lived in Havana since 1998.  There she has her own project  - QUIET NIGHTS CUBA – working with fellow Cuban artists and producing small-format multi-media events/performances. 

In 2009 Sue worked with Cuban singers Yusa & Danay Suarez performing in Havana's electronic festival, Rotilla. In 2010 she presented her first solo concert with Jasmine Mitchell & Phillip Alexander (US) and Melvis Santa & M Alfonso (Cuba). 

In 2012 she presented UP INTO THE SILENCE - songs to the poetry of the great American post-modernist,  E E Cummings - staged in the Karl Marx theatre, Havana, and featuring Sony-signed Diana Fuentes plus an all- Cuban production team including pianist Aldo Lopez-Gavilan. This concert was voted one of Cuba's 10 best concerts of 2012 went on to win two CubaDisco prizes (best music to poetry: best of a DVD of a live performance) - the DVD shown at the Leo Brouwer Festival (2013) and at Havana's International Film Festival (2014).