Daniel Gaviria

Daniel Gaviria
Biography

Colombian guitarist, arranger and educator, Daniel Gaviria, left the Andes Mountains for the Green Mountains of Vermont, and is excited to be sharing his love and knowledge of music with fellow musicians, audiences and guitar students.

While studying classical guitar at the Central University in Bogota, his musicality and virtuosic playing brought him national acclaim as the winner of several competitions, such as the Luis Angel Arango Young Interpreters’ Competition, the Fernando Sor Guitar Festival Competition. His prizes included concerts in several different national cities as well as an invitation to participate in the New York Guitar Seminar at Mannes in 2008.

An avid chamber musician, Daniel performed more than 40 concerts in the Philharmonic Orchestra of Bogota’s outreach concert series as a member of the Quarteto + 1, a guitar and clarinet quintet. A founding member of the Vitart Trio, made up of a combination of acoustic and electric guitars and pedals, he arranged multi-effect compilations of film scores for outreach concerts at schools and universities and the winner’s concert/grant of the Bogota Has Talent Competition a city wide program for the arts.

Now part of the 8 Cuerdas Duo with soprano Sarah Cullins, Daniel is focused on one of his favorite repertoires, 20th-century Latin-American works. The Duo has performed various concerts in Colombia, North Carolina and in Vermont, making many appearances in many venues and concert series throughout the state.

After making an unusually successful recovery from focal dystonia, a neurological syndrome that affects many musicians after rigorous years of study, Daniel now coaches other musicians on healthy practice techniques and how to avoid and/or recover from this and other similar syndromes.

In addition to classical and Latin-American repertoire, Daniel is a sought-after guitarist. Aside from his current activities he participates in the pit orchestra of several American musical shows throughout the year (one of his favorites things to do), has played with excellent musicians across the state and featured in several Choir and chamber music ensembles. He is also a trained Suzuki-method guitar teacher of all ages and holds an Arts Administration post-graduate degree from the Universidad del Rosario of Bogota and a professional certificate in full stack software and web development from MIT.