Raquel Gutiérrez-Achón

GUITIÉRREZ-ACHÓN, Raquel. b. Preston (now Puerto Guatemala), Province of Oriente, Cuba; 5 May 1927; d. Los Angeles, California, 5 January 2013. Raquel Gutiérrez-Achón was a church musician, pianist, choral conductor, hymnal editor, and promoter of Spanish-language hymns in the United States and Latin America. She studied music at the Instituto Santiago and the Conservatorio Provincial (Santiago de Cuba), Matin College (Pulaski, Tennessee), George Peabody College for Teachers (Nashville, Tennessee), and the Chicago Conservatory. Returning to Cuba following graduation, she joined the faculty of the Evangelical Seminary in Matanzas, an ecumenical seminary east of Havana, as choir director...