Bernardo Antonio Rodríguez Menendez - pianist, composer, arranger and producer - was born in Havana City on the 10th of December 1980.
At seven years old he started his musical education in percussion and piano at the Conservatorio de Música Manuel Saumell, studies that would continue in the Conservatorio Amadeo Roldan, where he achieved first place in the percussion competition in 1994. In 1999 and 2000 he graduated, respectively, in the specialities of percussion and piano.
During this period of study Tony, together with Oliver Valdés and Ronald Moran, formed the jazz trio Standard Kids. They would go on to form the quartet Los Primos, with whom he would regularly perform at the Atlantic Jazz Festival.
Between 2002 and 2006 he spent time as the leader of Isaac Delgado's backing band, before moving on to a similar role for the singer-songwriter Carlos Varela. It was in 2007 when he started Djazz together with the well-known Cuban DJ Wichy, a project that fused together jazz with electronic music and produced the outstanding track 'La perla del son' amongst many others.
Tony has performed at several notable festivals such as the Toronto Downtown Jazz Festival (2001), the North Sea Jazz Festival (2006) and in almost all the editions of Jazz Plaza. He is the current pianist of Havana D'Primera, the Cuban salsa collective led by Alexander Abreu, with whom he has appeared in some of the most famous live music venues across the world.
In 2018, after several years of leading the backing bands of star Cuban acts, Tony Rodriguez finally let loose his creativity in the form of the jazz album At Last.
