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At the II International Guitar Competition of Havana, Miguel Bonachea received an Award as well as the Special Price from the Jury’s President of Honor, the Special Price for the Best Performance of Cuban Music, and a Special Price from the Catalan luthier Farr-Pratt. He also received Awards from the National Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC) and the “Amadeo Roldan” Cuban National Competition.

As a professor, Bonachea taught at the National School of Arts and the Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana, Cuba. He moved to Colombia in 1992, where he tenured as Dean of the Conservatory of Music named after Antonio Maria Valencia at the Institute of Fine Arts in Cali, until 2004. In the late 1990s Bonachea featured a series of successful workshops for music educators around different cities of Colombia, as well as master classes for students seeking a professional career. After 2004, he served as Head of the Area of Guitar at the University EAFIT in Medellin, Colombia, and he also taught a special course about guitar technique, interpretation and chamber music at the Corpas University in Bogotá, before moving to the U.S.A. by the end of 2010.

Bonachea is an enthusiast advocate of contemporary music and has devoted part of his professional career to its advancement. In the 1980s, he was a co-founder of the National Laboratory of Electro-acoustic Music in Havana, led by composer Juan Blanco, a pioneer of electro-acoustic music in Latin America. Bonachea has been invited as a guest performer in residence at the “Laboratory for Researches on Electro-acoustics of Brussels”, Belgium, to participate in the creation of a composition titled “Guitarra Cubana” by Belgian composer Leo Küpper. Since the beginning of his career, Bonachea has included in his repertoire contemporary works from contemporary composers such as Leo Brouwer, Carlos Fariñas, Hector Angulo, Bernardo Cardona, Efraín Amador, Jose A. Pérez Puentes and Armando Rodriguez Ruidiaz, among others. Renowned composers Leo Küpper (Belgium), Moisés Bertrán (Spain), Andrés Posada (Colombia), and Yalil Guerra (Cuba-USA) have dedicated original pieces to Miguel Bonachea.

Miguel Bonachea (born Santa Clara, Cuba 1960) is a Cuban guitarist and professor.