Ileana Perez Velazquez is a Cuban-American composer who has been professor of composition at Williams College since 2000. She was born in Cienfuegos, Cuba, and studied undergraduate piano and composition at the Higher Institute of Arts (ISA), Havana, Cuba before moving to the United States for graduate work in composition at Dartmouth College and Indiana University School of Music in Bloomington, where she earned her Doctor of Musical Arts degree.