Guillermo García was born in Bahia Blanca, a southern port of Argentina, where he grew up among tango, soccer, barbecues,
military coups and numerous currency devaluations. Inexplicably attracted to the shape of the guitar, he started playing argentine tango and
folklore music at the age of 10, and classical guitar at age 15.
As a dancer, Guillermo learned argentine tango from some of the major Buenos Aires masters of the salón, milonguero and nuevo styles.
He teaches a weekly tango salón class in San Francisco, and has taught numerous musicality workshops for dancers. He has also hosted several
workshops on the Tango Discovery method in the Bay Area.
As a musician, he co-founded and recorded with Trio Garufa ("Tango en el Mate" CD, 2004, "La Segunda Tradición" CD, 2008,
and an upcoming 2010 album to be released on September 18) as well as Flor de Tango ("Flor de Tango" CD, 2000). He currently teaches tango
guitar and performs with Trio Garufa in San Francisco, sometimes touring Argentina and other parts of the USA.
Guillermo also specializes in music and audio technology. He holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University, with a dissertation
on the restoration of old music recordings using digital audio processing. He previously obtained a Masters in audio signal processing from Université
d’Orsay in Paris, and an Electrical Engineer degree from Universidad Nacional del Sur in Argentina. He worked as an audio engineer for IRCAM/Centre
Pompidou in Paris, where he created the computer-processed castrato voice for the FARINELLI film (1995 Academy Award nominee, and winner of Cesar Award and
Golden Globe award). In California, he developed audio technology for Gibson Guitar, Silicon Graphics and Creative Labs, and presently designs audio processing
algorithms for BIAS.
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