Gerald Garcia
At his Wigmore Hall debut one critic hailed Gerald Garcia as a ‘performer of rare quality’. '... Anyone interested in hearing the guitar at its best should put Gerald Garcia at the top of their list.'. He has toured the Far East and Europe including Australia, and was the first British guitarist to play in China in recent times. He has appeared at all the main international festivals in Britain including Edinburgh, Aldeburgh, Cheltenham and the South Bank and has broadcast extensively on radio and television all over the world. Recently he has been as far as Borneo and the Arctic Circle.
Gerald Garcia has given recitals with many leading ensembles, soloists and actors including the London Sinfonietta, the Hong Kong Philharmonic, Paco Pena, John Williams, Richard Baker, Prunella Scales and Leo McKern. With the flautist Clive Conway he has performed in most parts of Britain as well as at Glastonbury Pop Festival and on the ocean liner, the QE II. He has performed throughout Britain with the Chilean group, Quimantu, and has also collaborated with Asian and oriental artists, notably the Pipa virtuoso, Wu Man. Composers who have dedicated works to him include Michael Finnissy and Judith Weir. He has studied Renaissance and Baroque music for the lute, guitar and vihuela, on which he is an accomplished performer.
Gerald Garcia has taught at the GB International Summer School for Guitarists with Gilbert Biberian with whom he was co-director, and regularly appears at summer schools in Belgium and the USA. He is a regular visitor to the Iserlohn Summer School in Germany. He has conducted amateur orchestras at the Baroque Summer School. His other teaching activities include workshops, notably in schools projects with the English National Opera, Kent Opera and the Academy of St.Martin-in the Fields and many weekend workshops for guitarists in Britain and Europe. Recent teaching included a one-day seminar on stress and musicians’injuries with John Williams at the London School of Music, and a training day on music drama for young children with instrumental teachers on the Isle of Skye. He is also extremely busy as a session musician and has worked with such diverse talents as Michel Legrand, Barbara Streisand, Larry Coryell and Wayne Shorter, and has played the title music in several feature films.
Gerald Garcia studied Chemistry at Oxford University and now lives in Oxford where he enjoys cycling, cooking, computer music, Taoist Yoga and conducting the odd chamber orchestra.
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Gerald conducted the Chester Guitar Circle orchestra day in 2007
Gerald Garcia has given recitals with many leading ensembles, soloists and actors including the London Sinfonietta, the Hong Kong Philharmonic, Paco Pena, John Williams, Richard Baker, Prunella Scales and Leo McKern. With the flautist Clive Conway he has performed in most parts of Britain as well as at Glastonbury Pop Festival and on the ocean liner, the QE II. He has performed throughout Britain with the Chilean group, Quimantu, and has also collaborated with Asian and oriental artists, notably the Pipa virtuoso, Wu Man. Composers who have dedicated works to him include Michael Finnissy and Judith Weir. He has studied Renaissance and Baroque music for the lute, guitar and vihuela, on which he is an accomplished performer.
Gerald Garcia has taught at the GB International Summer School for Guitarists with Gilbert Biberian with whom he was co-director, and regularly appears at summer schools in Belgium and the USA. He is a regular visitor to the Iserlohn Summer School in Germany. He has conducted amateur orchestras at the Baroque Summer School. His other teaching activities include workshops, notably in schools projects with the English National Opera, Kent Opera and the Academy of St.Martin-in the Fields and many weekend workshops for guitarists in Britain and Europe. Recent teaching included a one-day seminar on stress and musicians’injuries with John Williams at the London School of Music, and a training day on music drama for young children with instrumental teachers on the Isle of Skye. He is also extremely busy as a session musician and has worked with such diverse talents as Michel Legrand, Barbara Streisand, Larry Coryell and Wayne Shorter, and has played the title music in several feature films.
Gerald Garcia studied Chemistry at Oxford University and now lives in Oxford where he enjoys cycling, cooking, computer music, Taoist Yoga and conducting the odd chamber orchestra.
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Gerald conducted the Chester Guitar Circle orchestra day in 2007
