Biography
From the early 2010s onward Violeta García has operated within free improvisation as an Argentinian experimental cellist and composer whose primary influence remains Joëlle Léandre, the French double bassist and member of the European Women Improvising Group. Born in Buenos Aires in 1990, she began cello studies at age eight and later attended the Astor Piazzolla Conservatory, the Manuel de Falla Higher Conservatory of Music, and the National University of the Arts. Years of rigorous classical training ultimately prompted a decisive shift; after participating in a workshop led by Léandre, García redirected her practice toward expressive contemporary techniques. In 2011 she joined the nine-cellist collective ARRE! for the recording of its somber self-titled album. The following year she appeared in a quintet assembled for Bosnnia’s Ferias y Fiestas de la Posguerra, layering traditional Balkan material over sporadic Latin and post-rock pulses. One month later the Buenos Aires-based Peruvian flutist Camilo Ángeles released their discordant avant-jazz performance as the live album El Espesor del Sueño.
In 2015 García, Ángeles, and bassist Carlos Quebrada established the TVL label to support similarly inclined Latin American musicians; that same year she took part in an improvisation residency in Bariloche led by Ernesto Jodos and Oscar Edelstein. She rejoined Ángeles in 2016 as a member of his Nicotina es Primavera ensemble for the Buh Records album Animal Cerámico. Although her contributions to Marco Sanguinetti’s 2017 piano recording 9 yielded a comparatively accessible result, her concurrent work with Quebrada on the self-titled BlancoTeta EP emphasized disorder and eccentricity. The pair also issued the equally exploratory album Infierno Piso 6 under the name Monótonos Truenos and, before year’s end, the Lana de Vidrio EP with oboist Juliana Gaona.
García’s debut solo album, Acero, appeared in February 2018; Quebrada handled mixing and mastering. The same twelve months brought a second Nicotina es Primavera release, the collaborative EP El devenir del Río with Pia Hernandez, and featured contributions to experimental jazz drummer Andrés Elstein’s Elstein6: Las Formas Cambian. A 2018 Basel performance alongside Naama Tsabar secured an invitation to the 2019 Art Omi residency in New York. Further boundary-pushing sessions in 2020 with Javier Areal Vélez and Arborescroma followed, yet García continued to sustain herself through session work in traditional tango. She relocated to Bern, Switzerland, in 2021 to pursue an M.A. in Music Composition Creative Practice and that year completed two additional collaborative projects: Uanmortaim with New York alto saxophonist Chris Pitsiokos and the Kit Records release Absence with traditional Korean flutist Dasom Baek.
In 2015 García, Ángeles, and bassist Carlos Quebrada established the TVL label to support similarly inclined Latin American musicians; that same year she took part in an improvisation residency in Bariloche led by Ernesto Jodos and Oscar Edelstein. She rejoined Ángeles in 2016 as a member of his Nicotina es Primavera ensemble for the Buh Records album Animal Cerámico. Although her contributions to Marco Sanguinetti’s 2017 piano recording 9 yielded a comparatively accessible result, her concurrent work with Quebrada on the self-titled BlancoTeta EP emphasized disorder and eccentricity. The pair also issued the equally exploratory album Infierno Piso 6 under the name Monótonos Truenos and, before year’s end, the Lana de Vidrio EP with oboist Juliana Gaona.
García’s debut solo album, Acero, appeared in February 2018; Quebrada handled mixing and mastering. The same twelve months brought a second Nicotina es Primavera release, the collaborative EP El devenir del Río with Pia Hernandez, and featured contributions to experimental jazz drummer Andrés Elstein’s Elstein6: Las Formas Cambian. A 2018 Basel performance alongside Naama Tsabar secured an invitation to the 2019 Art Omi residency in New York. Further boundary-pushing sessions in 2020 with Javier Areal Vélez and Arborescroma followed, yet García continued to sustain herself through session work in traditional tango. She relocated to Bern, Switzerland, in 2021 to pursue an M.A. in Music Composition Creative Practice and that year completed two additional collaborative projects: Uanmortaim with New York alto saxophonist Chris Pitsiokos and the Kit Records release Absence with traditional Korean flutist Dasom Baek.
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