Carlos Castilla

Carlos has performed as a soloist with different orchestras and chamber ensembles as well as solo recitals in different cities of Latin-America and the United States. He is the co-founder of DUO GUITIANO along with Cuban pianist Amanda Virelles. (myspace.com/duoguitiano)Highly acclaimed as recitalist, pedagogue, and adjudicator Castilla was an Associate Professor at the Music Department of Universidad del Atlántico in his native Colombia, where he taught classical guitar and chamber music. He has also served at William Carey University and The University of Southern Mississippi.Carlos Castilla has performed in seminars and master classes for guitar icons such as Manuel Barrueco, Alirio Diaz, Eduardo Fernandez, Thomas Patterson, Costa Cotsiolis, Joaquin Clerch and Leo Brouwer. His articles about new approaches to the guitar technique were published in Guitar Sessions, a magazine edited by Mel Bay Publications.Dr. Castilla holds a Bachelor of music from Los Andes University at Bogotá-Colombia where he studied with Maestro Jaime Arias Obregón. He did advanced studies in guitar performance in Havana-Cuba at Instituto Superior de Arte and also holds a Master in guitar performance and a doctorate in music performance and pedagogy from USM.Parallel to the classical guitar Carlos is a versatile session recording artist with an interesting variety of styles and music languages including flamenco, pop, jazz, Latin jazz, rock-fusion and Latin American rhythms, working in recording studios not only as a performer but also as a producer and sound engineer.