Dr. Rubén Peláez is an acclaimed concert pianist and is much in demand both as soloist and chamber musician. He has appeared in some of the world's leading concert halls in Europe and the U.S. including The Spanish Cultural Institute of New York, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, The Anderson House Museum and The Phillips Collection Concert Series in Washington D.C.

Dr. Peláez was born in Camagüey, Cuba in 1963, and began his piano lessons with his mother at the age of six. In Cuba, Peláez won many prestigious national competitions including the 1975 'Alejandro Garcia Caturla' and High Institute of Arts Piano Competition in 1982 both in Havana.  In 1985 he performed Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No.2 with the Matanzas Symphony Orchestra to critical acclaim.

Peláez's CD of all 41 danzas for piano of Ignacio Cervantes, which paired him with virtuoso Santiago Rodriguez for the three four-hand pieces was released by Élan Recordings in November 1996.

Peláez also performed with Ivan David in the International Piano Festival to benefit the scholarship fund created in memory of pianist Jorge Bolet at The Dade County Auditorium in Miami.

Peláez received a doctorate degree from the University of Maryland in College Park, and did his undergraduate work and masters degree at the High Institute of Arts in Havana, Cuba.  Among his teachers were world-renowned pianists Jorge Luis Prats, Santiago Rodriguez, and Teresa Escandón.  He also participated in master classes with highly praised pianist Andre Watts, Larissa Debova, and Valerie Kastelsky.