Violeta García is a cellist, improviser and composer from Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is now based in Switzerland. She has been studying music since 1998.
Studies
She studied master program: MA Music Composition Creative Practice at Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland. She has a Degree on Musical Arts specializing in violoncello at “Universidad Nacional of Arts (U.N.A)” Buenos Aires, Argentina and she also has a Degree in Composition by “Conservatory Manuel de Falla” with Ricardo Capellano in Capital Federal, Argentina.
She has performed and exhibited in different festivals and music series around the world USA, UK, Peru, Colombia, Mexico, Uruguay, Argentina, all Europe notable at: CCK, Ciclo Ruido Buenos Aires, ICPNA Lima, Universidad de los Andes Bogotá, Centro Ex Teresa Arte Actual Ciudad de Mexico, NYC, Fusion Festival, Silent Green Berlin, KilBI Switzerland, TransMusicales France, CCCC Valencia, KonventZero Barcelona, Roskilde, Bongo Joe, Dampfzentrale Bern, ect.
In 2018 she took part in a collaboration program at Art Basel in Faena Art Center to perform with Naama Tsabar (Israel- NYC) in “Melodies of Certain Damage #opus 2”
In 2019 Violeta has been selected to be part of a Music Summer Camp at Art Omi in New York city to perform and collaborate with other artist in residency from around the world supported by Williams Arts Fundation.
In 2020 had a support from ProHelvetia “Coincidencia” program to coordinate “Public Voices” with Griselda Fresler and amazing multimedia artist from Latin America.
In 2021 she was supported by Ibermusicas to make a composition residency at Konvent-Zero in Barcelona, Spain.
General
She is a performer in many art forms, including free improvisation, contemporary and trans-media experimental repertoire in violoncello and electronics and collaborations sometimes with dancers, filmmakers and visual artists. After years of studying classical and popular music on violoncello and, later contemporary composition and improvisation. Violeta realized that her own musical voice needed to emerge outside specific genres. At the moment she is eager to improvise, compose and create new sounds experiment with extended techniques, prepared instrument and work with dynamic, rhythmic and original tuneful combinations in her intensities and visceral performances. Now her primary interest is to open new sound spaces that invite the audience on an inner voyage.
In 2015 she founded a digital label and musics series called TVL-REC (www.tvlrec.com) with Carlos Quebrada (Colombia) and Camilo Ángeles (Perú). It is devoted to publishing new music, experimental groups and collectives from Latin America and other countries and making music series and festivals of noise and extreme music in Latin America. She also curated with Javier Areal Velez and Genosidra the International festival “Streaming Fest”. Since 2022 is curating a monthly series of experimental music in Bern, Switzerland called SDK in collaboration with the label Neue Numeral and curated in 2024 the Jazzwerkstatt Festival in Switzerland.