LEONARDO GARCIA FUENZALIDA
Leonardo GARCIA FUENZALIDA
Nationality: Chilean
CELLULAR PHONE: +33 6 83 64 72 98
E-MAIL: winkalida@yahoo.fr
Career Background and Activities
I am a multi-flutist, quena player, composer and researcher based in Paris, France. His main working areas concern World Music, Modal Improvisation and Arrangement. During my career I have leaded several projects with Jazz, Contemporary genres and improvised music, performing with musicians as Theodosii Spassov (Bulgaria), Min Hye-sung (Korea), the Soloists of Radio France National Orchestra and French saxophone Jazz virtuoso Jean-Charles Richard. Having a wide experience in music teaching, I work currently at the PSPBB High Studies Artistic Pole in Paris.
Recent concerts and touring
In France: "Kijada en 3/4" (Afro-Peruvian Jazz Trio), “Archipels du P’ansori” (Jazz-fusion and Korean P'ansori and Minyo), “Ciudades Limítrofes” (with the National Radio France Orchestra soloists, 2012-2013), Inca Mandinga (Afro-péruvian Jazz-Fusion), Cell-Project (Progressive Rock, 2013), Alvaro Bello group (Latin Jazz). Abroad: Singapore (Venue at Yale-NUS Auditorium, 2016), Peru (Lima International Jazz Festival (April 2015), China (“Melody for Dialogue”, Nanjing, UNESCO, September 2014), Korea (“Archipels du P’ansori”, Jeonju Arts Center, Seoul Burn Jazz Club, November 2013), Taiwan (Resident with “Mei Li De Dao”, Taipei, Chiayi, Keelung, Taidong. December 2010 and April-May 2011).
Others : Studio musician : “Long Distance” and “Tex Avril” studios (Paris). Films « La faute à Fidel », Julie Gavras (2006), “Safari”, Olivier Baroux (2009). French TV documental series “Vu du Ciel”, Yann Arthus Bertrand. (2007-2010). First Prize International Short Film Festival in Montreal, Canada, 2003. Music composition and performing for “Vie et mort d’un instant d’ennui” (Patrick Bossard).
Languages
Spanish: native speaking
French: bilingual
English: fluent
Skills
Photography
Travelling
Cooking
2010 - present
2010 - present
Publishings
“The quena. New techniques and tones” (research treaty about the extended techniques of the Andean kena flute. 119 pp. + CD, bilingual Spanish-English). Ed. Arquetipo (Santiago, Chile). National Music Council of the Chilean Ministry of Culture. 2008.
Selective discography : “Two ends of the Curve” (Leonardo Garcia and Mei Li De Dao, Plaza Mayor Co. 2011), “Y qué pasó” (Alvaro Bello Group, Frémeaux, 2010), “Leonardo Garcia Trio” (Indie 2007), “Curramba” (Guillermo Carbó, Yai Records, Colombia, 2005), “Mémoires de ciel et vent” (Syntésia, 1999).
Teaching experience and research
- Since 2011 – Lecturer (Traditional music, Modal Improvisation and Ethnomusicology) at the Jazz department of the Pôle supérieur d’enseignement artistique Paris-Boulogne Billancourt, PSPBB - http://www.pspbb.fr
- 2017 - Guest lecturer in Chile- Universidad Católica (Escuela de Verano, January). Singapore- Lasalle College of the Arts and Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA) (April and September). Malaysia- Sunway University and Sultan Idriss University (September). Turkey- Istanbul technological University (ITÜ) (December), as part of the Erasmus European exchange program.
- 2014 and 2015 – Guest lecturer. Yon Siew Toh Conservatory of Music, National University of Singapore (NUS), August.
- 2013 – Resident professor. Facultad de Artes, Universidad de Chile, Santiago (September). Invited teacher. Paris CMA 19 (19th District Conservatory) - (October to December).
- Since 2008 – Member of the editorial board of the americanist online revue “Nuevo Mundo Mundos Nuevos”. http://nuevomundo.revues.org
2001-2010 – Associated professor. Music school - Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educación (UMCE). Santiago de Chile.
Academic background
2008 – PhD in Sociology (music, religion and identities in a Chilean brotherhood, the bailes chinos) obtained with the highest degree. University of Paris-X-Nanterre.
2000 - D.E. (National French State Diploma) in traverse flute. CEFEdeM d’île-de-France.
1998 – Second Prize of Generative Improvisation. Paris National Conservatory (Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris - CNSMDP).
1996 – D.E. (National French State Diploma) in traditional instruments – kena and First Prize of Musical Acoustics. CNSMDP.
1991 – Bachelor degree in traverse flute (Major) with the highest distinction. IMUC, Catholic University of Chile (Santiago de Chile).
