Described in the Washington Post as a percussionist of "marvelous virtuosity", Luis Garay is a classical, jazz and Afro-Latin multi-percussionist, composer, recording artist, and educator. Mr. Garay was born in Cordoba, Argentina. (Percussion Professor at Cordoba State Conservatory of Music, Master of Music from The Catholic University of America, Washington D.C. Additional advanced studies include the Escola de Musica de Brasilia in Brazil) He has been percussion soloist & director of Luis Garay Percussion World Ensemble since 1996. Mr. Garay is also artistic director, founder, and instructor of the Lion Drummers World Percussion Seminar which was founded in 1998. During his 44 year career, he has performed throughout the Americas and Europe. He has received prestigious awards such as recognition by the U.S. government as an "Artist of Exceptional Ability" he performed for Pope John Paul II in the Vatican, he won the gold medal from the International Rotary Club, he received the Team Leadership Award from the Group Study Exchange Program, and he was awarded a fellowship from Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat through the Inter-American Music Friends at the Organization of American States and The Catholic University of America and Margot Fonteyn. Mr. Garay is a former principal timpanist of The Cordoba Symphony Orchestra (1983-1994) and Symphony Band from Cordoba(1979-1994). He has been associated with Washington Performing Arts Society (WPAS) and Concerts in the Schools since 2005-2022. He was private instructor and Jazz Ensemble director of St. Albans School & National Cathedral School in Washington, DC 1998-2020. He was Adjunct Percussion Instructor and Director of the Catholic University Percussion Ensemble at The Catholic University of America from 1999-2003. He is founder of the Cordoba Jazz Quartet and former director of Youth Percussionists of Cordoba 1982-1992. He performed with the New Music Group of Cordoba and he was chairman, instructor & director of the percussion ensemble of the Cordoba State Conservatory of Music in Argentina for twelve years.
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