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dave — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 07:18:56 +0000

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

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dave — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 07:20:42 +0000

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 recorded with Parisian salsa group La Contrabanda, performs regularly with the son septet Barrio del Este, salsa-funk outfit La Murumba, and started the jazz-world trio called Calamity Jeanne. He currently teaches guitar and electric bass at Ecole Koenig and the British School of Paris.

Timeline

admin — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 13:02:27 +0000

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
2008 – Celebrated turning 30 with a jam session at L’Escale
2009 – Married Cécile Dessertenne (again) in Conway, NH
2010 – Wrote and recorded Songs from 2010; Founded Calamity Jeanne with Guillaume Broquin and Jeanne-Abigaïl Denzler
2011 – Calamity Jeanne began performing in Paris; Joined La Murumba