Tupac Mantilla

Primary Instrument:
Percussion

Location:
NEW YORK, NY

Willing to teach:
Advanced students only.

Credentials/Background:
TUPAC MANTILLA – Teaching Experience   Percussionist and Drummer TUPAC MANTILLA is highly recognized as a worldwide class instructor with almost 20 years of teaching experience in several countries around the world. With his creative systems and programs, Mr. Mantilla has become a Pioneer percussionist in Latin America being the founder and director of the first institutional program based on the Stomp Technique (Colombia - Javeriana University, 2004). A highly regarded performer and scholar, MANTILLA has created and guided numerous workshops through his Global Percussion Network PERCUACTION oriented to universities, academic programs, commercial companies, and governmental institutions throughout the Americas as well as Europe, based on Body Percussion, World Rhythms, Improvisation and the use of regular objects as musical instruments. He was a faculty member at Javeriana University and El Bosque University in Colombia from 2002 to 2005 and became a Teacher Assistant at the New England Conservatory (Boston USA) in 2006. In 2008 he was named by famous jazz pianist Danilo Perez, Director of the Children’s Program at the Panama Jazz Festival, where he regularly coaches and gives percussion related workshops. Most recently Mr. Mantilla was invited by the Literature Department at the prestigious Harvard University (Boston - USA) to give a lecture on his “Sound Metaphors in Music” workshop - 2009. In the same order, Stanford University (California – USA) contacted him in 2010 to join the Stanford Jazz Workshop Program as a Faculty Member. In 2010 Mr. MANTILLA is launching as the Artistic Director his percussion project PERCUACTION, a global percussion company that mainly focuses its interest in reaching out to underprivileged communities and children through percussion education and Music.

Clinic/Workshop Information:
TUPAC MANTILLA – Teaching Experience   Percussionist and Drummer TUPAC MANTILLA is highly recognized as a worldwide class instructor with almost 20 years of teaching experience in several countries around the world. With his creative systems and programs, Mr. Mantilla has become a Pioneer percussionist in Latin America being the founder and director of the first institutional program based on the Stomp Technique (Colombia - Javeriana University, 2004). A highly regarded performer and scholar, MANTILLA has created and guided numerous workshops through his Global Percussion Network PERCUACTION oriented to universities, academic programs, commercial companies, and governmental institutions throughout the Americas as well as Europe, based on Body Percussion, World Rhythms, Improvisation and the use of regular objects as musical instruments. He was a faculty member at Javeriana University and El Bosque University in Colombia from 2002 to 2005 and became a Teacher Assistant at the New England Conservatory (Boston USA) in 2006. In 2008 he was named by famous jazz pianist Danilo Perez, Director of the Children’s Program at the Panama Jazz Festival, where he regularly coaches and gives percussion related workshops. Most recently Mr. Mantilla was invited by the Literature Department at the prestigious Harvard University (Boston - USA) to give a lecture on his “Sound Metaphors in Music” workshop - 2009. In the same order, Stanford University (California – USA) contacted him in 2010 to join the Stanford Jazz Workshop Program as a Faculty Member. In 2010 Mr. MANTILLA is launching as the Artistic Director his percussion project PERCUACTION, a global percussion company that mainly focuses its interest in reaching out to underprivileged communities and children through percussion education and Music.