Born in Havana, Cuba, Sandro was introduced to music by his mother for the first time at the age of three. Besides playing in and as a soloist with the national orchestras he has also played in numerous visiting orchestras in Cuba, such as the Oakland (CA) Youth Orchestra and the New England Conservatory’s Youth Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Benjamin Zander. He has traveled Graz, Austria and Gijon, Spain, with the Orquesta Sinfonica de Matanzas conducted by Austrian Wolfgang Bozic as the principal of the second violins. He was a laureate in the national Cuban competitions such as the Concurso Municipal de Violin and the Concurso Nacional de Violin Amadeo Roldan. He studied for two years with former Boston Symphony principal Marylou Churchill. Has collaborated with artists such as the concertmistresses of the Minnesota and Seattle Symphonies, Jorja Fleezanis and Maria Larinoff. He has also collaborated in benefit concerts for refugee families with Rochester Philharmonic associate concertmaster Wilfredo Deglans. In 2006, Sandro was accepted as one of the semi-finalists at the Sphinx competition for African-Americans and Latinos, held in Michigan, Detroit. In the same year, he was also given full scholarship to participate in the Youth Orchestra of the Americas traveling throughout Belgium, Italy, Germany, France and England. In 2006, Sandro became the first Cuban to graduate with Bachelors degrees with violin professor Mikhail Kopelman from the Eastman School of Music. In 2007 he was accepted in the sub list for both, the New World Symphony in Miami, FL, and in the Pittsburgh Opera, PA. He participated as assistant principal in concerts at the Spoleto Festival in Charleston, SC. Sandro is currently in his first year of Masters degrees at Carnegie Mellon School of the Arts in Pittsburgh in the studio of Prof. Cyrus Forough.