Christopher Garcia is a native of East Los Angeles, who attended the California Institute of the Arts in 1979 and has been making music in 28 countries on 5 continents ever since. Christopher continues to compose, improvise, concertize, lecture, and share his personal experiences with indigenous music, instruments, culture, and culture bearers, and history of Mesoamerica at universities and concert halls worldwide along with the physiological effects of music, rhythm, and drumming which continue to be validated daily through neuroscience, confirming the information left to us by the ancients. Christopher has been invited as a composer to attend the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, in the exploratory seminar titled, “Defining New Directions in Latin American and Latino Concert Music.”
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September 06, 2019