federico garcia

Born in Bogotá, Colombia, in 1978. His musical training began in 1986, and in 2001 he graduated as a composer from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in his home city, where he was a student of composers Gustavo Parra and Harold Vásquez among others. In 2006 he earned the degree of Ph.D. in Composition and Theory at the University of Pittsburgh, where he studied with composers Mathew Rosenblum, Eric Moe, and Roger Zahab. An award-winning composer, his musical output includes Consequence for oboe and piano (2000); Act for guitar (2001); Fantasia on a theme by Bach for piano (2001), orchestrated later as Passacaglia on theme by Bach; "An Anatomy of the World" on texts by John Donne for voice and six instrumentalists (2003); Septet for violin, cello, oboe, bassoon, horn, trombone, and percussions (2004); and Livre pour deux pianos (2008). His music has been played in Colombia, Germany, Argentina and the United States.

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