Guest Artist Profile: Mariano Garcia Jimenez, saxophone

Performing on Tuesday, Feb. 14 at 6:30 pm in Edge Recital Hall. Free and open to the public.

Born in Valencia in 1976, Mariano Garcia Jimenez entered the Advanced Royal Conservatory of Music in Madrid, where he won First Prize of the last year degree. García assisted at many courses carried out by Claude Delangle, Vincent David and Phillippe Braquart, among others. He has taught different advanced courses in many Spanish cities, as well as conferences and master classes in the Advanced Conservatories of Music of Salamanca, Zaragoza, Barcelona, Oviedo.

As a performer, García has competed in music festivals across the world, winning first prize at the International Musical Competition of Benidorm in 2003. In 2006, he made his debut as a soloist with an orchestra performing the Glazounov concerto with the “Ciutat de Novelda” Orchestra. Later that summer he toured in China performing and giving classes as a professor at the International Music Festival of Yantai.

García is also one of the members of the Austral Quartet. They have recorded a CD at the Jovellanos Museum of Gijón. In 2007 he was one of the members of the jury for the III International Saxophone competition of Huelma and has been invited to teach with Federico Coca and Phillipe Braquart in Zaragoza. Currently, he teaches at the Professional Music Conservatory of Sabiñánigo in northern Spain.