Hector Garcia

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Hector Garcia
Hector Garcia, classical guitarist Hector Garcia
Background information
Born	(1930-11-14) November 14, 1930 Hanvana, Cuba
Genres	classical
Instrument	classical guitar

Hector Garcia (born November 19, 1930) is a Cuban-American classical guitarist and composer.

He established the first Guitar Department in a United States University (at the

University of New Mexico at Albuquerque) in the 1960s, where he taught for about 20 years.

Biography

Garcia was born in Havana, Cuba. He received Master of Guitar and Master of Music degrees from the Peyrellade Conservatory, joining their faculty upon graduation in 1954. He chose to leave Cuba to escape the communistic regime at the age of 30, buying a two-way ticket from Havana to Miama, Florida (but using only one part of the ticket). He sought (and was granted asylum) in the United States with support of family and friends. Despite this, he did return to Cuba as part of the unsuccessful Bay of Pigs invasion, was captured, and was imprisoned. Even in prison, Hector was able to convince his captors to "find him a guitar". With this guitar, he formed a makeshift studio in prison with other students, some who went on to become accomplished musicians and professors . After two years imprisonment, he was released and returned to the US, where he went on to pursue his career as concert guitarist and educator, performing worldwide with major orchestras including the Havana Symphony, Los Angeles Sinfoniette, New Mexico Symphony Orchestra, and the Dupont Consortium in Washington DC. He appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show and founded the first academic department dedicated to classical guitar at the University of New Mexico . Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco dedicated a composition (Op. 170/39) Cancion Cubana to Hector Garcia .

Hector studied very closely with Emilio Pujol (a disciple of the Francisco Tárrega school of classical guitar ), and he was appointed assistant in 1969 to help conduct masterclasses attended by advanced students and performing artists worldwide. Hector adopted and expanded upon the traditions of both Tarrega and Pujol. Some of these influences led Hector to adopt a "no-nails" approach for guitar playing, which runs counter to the contemporary trend in classical guitar for players to grow the nails of the hand used to pluck strings (usually the right hand). The nails are grown and shaped to optimize sound production, but in the "no-nails" approach, the nails are cut short so that fingertips contact the string directly. The technique produces a sound that has a distinctive, softer characteristic, although the control is often more difficult, especially in passages requiring rapid arpeggio or tremolo .

Hector Garcia lives with his family in Albuquerque.

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