“Playing the guitar has taken me to the most distant and amazing places in the world. Both, to real physical places and places in my own mind. This is precisely why I love to play the guitar: because I can explore a wide variety of music styles from different cultures, times and places”.
With more than 20 years of artistic exposure, Aquizamin Garcia has performed in metropolitan cities such as New York, Vancouver, San Antonio, Habana, Bogota, Buenos Aires among others. He has performed in various iconic venues as “The Chan Centre” in Vancouver and “Bliblioteca Luis Angel Arango” in Bogota.
During 20 years of teaching experience Mr Garcia has developed music curricula based on various cultures and styles, from Classical, Jazz and Pop to Rock,Tango and Bossa-Nova. Mr Garcia is a co-designer of a guitar program based on South American and Caribbean popular-folklore music and on methodologies from the “classical guitar tradition”: Sor, Aguado, Giuliani, Pujol, Carlevaro, Nicola, Noad, and Brouwer.
Mr Garcia has participated in Master classes and Workshops given by world level performers as Chick Corea, Pepe Romero, Pavel Steidl, Gentil Montaña, Shin Ichi Fukuda, Andrew York, Ana Vidovic, Katona twins, Eduardo Isaac, Luis Orlandini, Michael Partington, Eduardo Baranzano and
Martín Madrigal among others.
Martín Madrigal among others.