Freddie Santiago

Extended Network Banner made with MyBannerMaker.com! Click here to make your own!Freddie Santiago Campos is native of Ponce, Puerto Rico. He comes from an artistic and musical family. Studied at the Escuela Libre de Musica in Ponce and at Puerto Rico Music Conservatory where he obtained his bachelor degree in music, majoring in percussion. He was member of Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra at first percussionist and guest of the Casals Festival Orchestra, Arturo Somohano's Philarmonic Orchestra and the Dominican Republic's Symphony Orchestra among others. His musical experience has trascended to other countries such as Cuba, Brazil and Europe. In Germany he had the opportunity of founding two schools of percussion which are very well known and was also a professor at Mannheim Conservatory. He has also traveled to Denmark, Sweden, Turkey, England and North and South America. Self-educated in the rhythms and instruments of ethnic percussion, he has participated in master classes, concerts and recordings of christian ministries and with local and international artists and musicians. He is actually a professor of classical, popular, jazz and ethnic percussion at the Inter American University in San German, Puerto Rico, where he also directs, on special ocassions latin-jazz Bands and percussion groups. Even though he has reached great renown and has paved the way for future generations his greatest satisfaction is being a useful tool in the hands of God.