Christopher Garcia
(EAST LOS Angeles, CA, USA) percussion of indigenous Mexico including: ayacaxtli, ayotapalkatl, baa wehai, teponaztli, tehuehuetl, tlapan huehuetl percussion of India: tabla, kanjira, ghatam percussion of the Americas y Europa berimbau y marimba miscellaneous percussion PAISTE metals Christopher Garcia is a critically acclaimed musician/composer/educator who specializes in drumset, hand and stick percussion of India and indigenous Mexico, and marimba. Originally from (East) Los Angeles, Christopher attended California Institute of the ARts on a full scholarship where he studied percussion with John Bergamo, and tabla with Pandit Taranath Rao, Leonice Shinemann, and Swapan Chaudhuri. His drumming is unusual in that it incorporates various styles, rhythms and their permutations, along with a fluency with odd time signatures and sonic textures, which he seamlessly incorporates into his performances. His fascination with rhythm and the color of sound allows him to be a group member and frequent collaborator/composer with various critically acclaimed classical, jazz, rock, and world music ensembles with whom he continues to concertize with performances in: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia, Brazil, Canada, Costa Rica, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Holland, Hungary, Italy, Korea, Macedonia, Mexico, Norway, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, the United States and Wales. As an educator he has given interactive lecture demonstrations from the middle school level to universities across the world on improvisation and its different vernaculars instruments of indigenous Mexico - Aztec/Mexica/Mayan/Raramuri instruments of North and South India rhythm and percussion instruments of the world and more His website on indigenous instruments of Mexico and various YOUTUBES demonstrating the instruments in solo and ensemble settings continues to be acknowledged as an excellent educational overview to these instruments, their histories and performance practices. His lectures have been described as “educational, elevating, enriching and life changing.” by various audiences. As a composer he has received commissions for indigenous instruments and classical guitar piano string quartet western harp woodwind quintet He also teaches, and composes for and leads his own critically acclaimed imaginative ensembles - ANADIS MUSIC Music of Asia - including China, and North and South India http://anadismusic.weebly.com/ CONTINUUM jazzed rock fusion GARCIA GODINEZ- DUO Western Harp and percussion of Meso America, Mexico and Beyond http://garciagodinez.weebly.com/ IN FLUX ENSEMBLE percussion of the world, cartoon music etc., THE INFINITE EXPANSION OF SOUND IXONEZTLI/GARCIA DUO Ritual theater based on the Codices of Meso America and Beyond http://losttribesproductions.weebly.com/the-infinite-expansion-of-sound.html MEXCLA MUSIC http://mezclamuzic.weebly.com/ TALES FROM THE SILK ROAD http://talesfromthesilkroad.weebly.com/ |