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David Garlitz is a guitarist, tresero, composer, ethnomusicologist, and educator born in New Hampshire and living in Paris, France.

David Garlitz has played guitar, electric bass, and tres (a Cuban guitar with strings tuned in three pairs) in performances with pianist Elio Villafranca, the grammy-award winning Relâche Ensemble, and the US touring company of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, among others. He has performed and studied with various nationally recognized musicians in Cuba, including tresero Daniel Cos of the Santiago-based group Moneda Nacional. After completing a Masters’ Degree in Ethnomusicology at Wesleyan University, he moved to Paris where he recently recorded with Parisian salsa group La Contrabanda, performs regularly with the son septet Barrio del Este, and started the trio Çasonando. He currently teaches guitar and electric bass at Ecole Koenig, a bilingual music school on the Left Bank.

• 1978 – Birth in Plymouth, New Hampshire, USA
• 1989 – Parents’ sabbatical year in Madrid, Spain
• 1995 – First guitar : SEARS® Harmony Rocket
• 1996 – Berklee College of Music Summer Program
• 1997 – Graduation from Plymouth Regional High School; Moved to Philadelphia
• 1999 – Founded the Way Blue Bucket
• 2000 – Visited Havana, Cuba – purchased a cuban tres and began listening to Arsenio Rodríguez
• 2001 – B.M. in Jazz Guitar Performance from Esther Boyer College of Music, Temple Univ., Philadelphia, PA; Founded Conjunto 23
• 2005 – M.A. in Ethnomusicology (Cuban music) from Wesleyan Univ., Middletown, CT; Moved to Paris, France
• 2006 – Guitar instructor at Ecole Koenig; Founded Çasonando; Began performing with Barrio del Este
• 2007 – Married Cécile Dessertenne in Paris; Fractured vertebra in Corsica