TUPAC MANTILLA
Short Bio
Internationally acclaimed Grammy® Nominee Percussionist/Drummer Tupac Mantilla is nowadays one of the most versatile and creative upcoming artist of his generation.
His work as a Performer, Educator, Producer and Clinician has been highly recognized worldwide and includes appearances in major Festivals, Institutions and Venues such as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Harvard University, Stanford University, The Montreal, North Sea, Perugia, Montreux, Gent, Nice, Newport Jazz Festivals among many others; as well as several percussion oriented workshops and conferences for prestigious multi-national companies around the world.
An accomplished percussionist with a Master of Music Honors Degree from the New England Conservatory (Boston, USA) and the 1st. Prize recipient of the 2002 Bogota's Philarmonic Orchestra's Classical Soloist Competition, Mr. Mantilla has collaborated and performed with artists such as Ustad Zakir Hussain, Danilo Perez, John Patitucci, Tisziji Muñoz, Bob Moses, Steve Smith, John Medeski, Michael Cain, Cecil McBee, Jamey Haddad, Deepak Ram, Julian Lage and the Bogota's Philharmonic Orchestra.
Mr. Mantilla is the Director of the Children’s Program for the Panama Jazz Festival and the Founder and Artistic Director for Colombia’s top experimental Percussion Group TEKEYÉ® and the Global Percussion Network PERCUACTION®.
Awards
- 1st. Prize recipient of the 2002 Bogota's Philarmonic
Orchestra's Classical Soloist Competition
- NEC 2006 Honors Ensemble Award
- Louis Armstrong Jazz Award 1997 (SWHS)
Primary Instrument
Percussion
Location
New York City
Willing to teach
Advanced 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
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Primary Instrument
Percussion
Location
New York City
Willing to teach
Advanced 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.
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