Casimiro Zertucha

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Casimiro Zertucha (1880–1950) was a Cuban violinist. He was born in Havana and grew up in Bejucal, where he studied with Juan Mercado and later with Tomas de la Rosa at Havana’s National Conservatory. He moved to Paris to study with Jose White Lafitte and Martin Marsick, and he led a small orchestra at festivals organized by the French patron Alexandre Jean Joseph de la Riche, spending about 15 years in France. He returned to Cuba in 1914 and taught at the Conservatorio Falcón, also serving as concertmaster of its Chamber Orchestra under pianist Alberto Falcón. He died in 1950.