Carme Garrigó García

Carme Garrigó García (Lleida, Spain 1981) Percussionist Carme started to play percussion when she 14 year old. She graduated on 2005 in Classical-Contemporary Percussion Interpretation at the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya with Miquel Bernat and George Ellie Octors. In 2007 she finished her master studies at the Conservatoire National de Région de Perpignan (France) with professor Philippe Spiesser.. She has attended workshops and master classes with: Keiko Abe, Steven Schick, Leigh Howard Stevens, Nicolas Martinciew, Marta Klimasara, Gordon Stout, Momoko Kamiya, Neil Grover, Klaus Tresselt, Keith Aleo, Gérard Pérotin, Daniel Ciampollini and Michael Burrit. She has been a member of the Spanish youth orchestras: Joven Orquesta Nacional de España and Jove Orquestra Nacional de Catalunya. She use to collaborate with Orquestra Simfònica del Vallés, Orquestra Nacional de Cambra d’Andorra and Banda Municipal de Barcelona.She has guested to collaborate with: Dúo Paticumpatá (percussion, Brasil), and Ensemble Mixtures (Barcelona). She’s member of the flamenco-fusion company La Nostra Essència essència she has written some music for the two shows Essència (2003) and Paisatges (2006), as the same time she introduced keyboard percussion instruments as marimba, vibraphone or steel-pan in the flamenco music. She also played as a solist in concerts with different contemporary and classical programs. She premiered solos and chamber music from Johannes Schöllhorn, Jean Philippe Guinlé, Jônatas Manzolli, Philippe Spiesser, Manel Rodeiro and Laura García-Olalla. She has designed 2 multidisciplinaire shows: The first one, Perkínesis (for percussion, dance and real-time vídeo, premiered in Barcelona on June 30th 2005) was included on her academic thesis “Percussion and Gesture”. The second one, Minimal Percussion (solo recital with small instruments and electronics, premiered in Lleida on February 24th 2006). She teaches percussion in several music schools in Barcelona and since 2004 she is part of a didactic project called Percussions, sponsored by the Educational Services of the Auditorium of Barcelona and organized by Àngel Pereira. She is also a conductor of the first Spanish steelband Bóbila’s Steelband. She has created a duo dance-percussion together with the contemporary dancer and choreographer Àfrika Martinez with whom she performed Repercúteme (2005) and Acoustic Meat (2006). In 2006 the duo performed for the contemporary music festival Nous Sons in Barcelona and participated with a video-dance to the festival Inter-Cambio in Santiago de Chile (Chile). The duo has premiered the show re(PER)curso from the brazilian composer Jônatas Manzolli and the scientific group SPECS in collaboration with Fundació Phonos of the University Pompeu Fabra (MACBA auditorium, Barcelona).style="position:absolute;top:0px;left:0px;"