About Arlet
Arlet Tabares is a Cuban French horn player, educator, and chamber musician currently pursuing a Doctor of Musical Arts at Temple University in Philadelphia. She has performed with the San Antonio Orchestra, Symphony in C, the Cuban National Symphony Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra of Ecuador and the Lyceum Mozartiano de La Habana.
She is a founding member of Havana Horns and appears on several recordings, including Mozart y Mambo with Sarah Willis (Alpha Classics 2020), the Cubadisco Award-winning Libre de Pecado by Beatriz Márquez (Colibrí 2018), and Havana Horns (DW Classical Music 2017). Upcoming releases include Mamá Kalunga by Roisel Suarez and Listen to the Earth by James Grant with the Temple Chamber Orchestra and choirs.
Tabares’s versatility extends across classical, contemporary, and jazz genres. She has performed with the Lenin Palacios Jazz Band, Joaquín Betancourt’s Joven Jazz Band, and has appeared at international festivals and conferences such as Jazz Plaza, the Leo Brouwer Festival, the Havana Contemporary Music Festival, the Mozart Festival in Havana and Quito Fest. She was a fellow at the Lyceum Mozartiano de La Havana 2016-2020, Atlanta Horn Festival in 2023 and 2024, Varna Festival in 2024, Colorado College Summer Festival 2025 and Imani Winds Chamber Festival 2025.
As an educator, she has been a Teaching Assistant at Temple University and Georgia University. She has also mentored students at Ztunes Music, Play on Philly, the Atlanta Music Project, Riobamba Municipal Orchestra and Ecuador’s National Youth Orchestra. Her work bridges cultures and styles, driven by a passion for connecting and empowering through music.