CHRISTOPHER GARCIA BIO
Christopher Garcia
is a composer, improviser, multi-instrumentalist, educator, and lecturer who has presented in 28 countries, and 5 continents since 1990, as a featured composer or soloist with numerous ensembles e.g., indigenous, jazz, rock, world, chamber, and symphonic orchestras, with either drum set, marimba, percussion of north and south India or indigenous instruments of Mesoamerica and Mexico. His YouTubes demonstrating indigenous instruments has over 175,000 visitors and his website has 2,000 monthly visitors. He continues to study, work, and present with anthropologists, archaeologists, ethnomusicologists, historians, modern-day practitioners, museologists, and researchers at concert halls and universities to learn and share the most up-to-date information available as well as being invited by INAH (the National Institute of Anthropology and History of Mexico), THE GETTY RESEARCH INSTITUTE and BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL DE ANTROPOLOGIA E HISTORIA to present in Mexico and the United States as a boots on a ground living and practitioner. |