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Biography Trumpeter, Anna Garcia, is an active chamber and orchestral musician. She has performed at Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall, at the Powell Hall and the Fox Theater in St. Louis, and The Blue Room in Kansas City. The winner of the 2010 International Trumpet Guild Solo Competition in Sydney, Australia, Ms. Garcia has advanced in several regional and national solo competitions such as The Naftzger Young Artist Competition in Wichita, KS and the National Trumpet Competition in Fairfax, VA.Anna’s classical training and jazz family background has led her to perform with NYC ensembles One World Symphony, Park Avenue Chamber Symphony, New Rochelle Opera, Arkansas Philharmonic Brass Quintet, KC big band New Jazz Order, Latin ensemble Makuza Salsa, NYC hip-hop group PitchBlak Brass Band, the Patriot Brass Ensemble New England States veterans tour, and has played “taps” for over 10 years with the Missouri Military Funeral Honors Program. She is a founding member of the St. Louis Jazz Sisters, Anna Garcia’s Little Big Band, and her performances and interviews have been broadcast on WSIE 88.7 St. Louis jazz radio. A new music enthusiast, Anna has worked with emerging composers premiering works with ensembles CO(mp)LLABORATIONS and Musica Nova. Ms. Garcia participated in the commission of Professor Emeritus John Cheetham to compose Contraptions, an unaccompanied trumpet work for the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory trumpet studio. A member of the National Music Festival, Anna performed a full production of Stravinsky’s L’histoire du soldat to the community of Floyd, VA. In 2011 she worked with Brian McWhorter in a world primer all brass and percussion arrangement by Erik Sara of Ligeti’s Mysteries of the Macabre. As an educator, Anna currently teaches as trumpet instructor for the after school program at Mott Hall II and at Ace Forum Inc., in NYC. She has taught at the Manhattan School of Music Precollege as an orchestra ringer. In 2010 she presented a teaching artist program on American music to NYC public schools 290 and Mott Hall II. From 2009-2010 Anna formed the Paradigm City Brass Quintet which received funding from the University of Missouri-Kansas City to present master classes to Kansas City public schools. In that year Anna was also the brass instructor for Southwest Early College Campus in Kansas City, MO. Anna holds degrees in trumpet performance from the Interlochen Arts Academy, University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music and Dance (B.M.), and currently completing a Master’s in Orchestral Performance at the Manhattan School of Music. Her primary teachers include Vincent Penzarella, Dr. Keith Benjamin, and Susan Slaughter with additional studies with Tom Smith, Mark Gould, David Taylor, Charles Geyer, Keith Johnson, Joshua MacCluer, and Bobby Watson. |
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