Jaime García-Añoveros
Jaime Garcia-Anoveros is a NYC / Chicago-based composer and violinist. He is the President and Co-Founder of the Deleuze New Music Collective (DNMC), through which he has organized fourteen world premieres by young composers, a studio recording session of chamber works by High School composers, and two calls for scores. He began playing violin at age three and composing for fun at age eight. By age 14, he started taking composition more seriously. Since then, it has become his primary musical activity. Jaime’s music is often inspired by literature, but he generally avoids writing strictly programmatic works.
Jaime has studied composition with Jessie Montgomery, Kevin James, Dr. Amanda Harberg, Dr. Cynthia VanMaanen, Dr. Ryan Suleiman, Dr. Ben Hjertmann, and Eric Malmquist. He has also taken lessons with Dr. David Ludwig, Dr. Chris Dobrian, Dr. Amy Beth Kirsten, Dr. Pierre Jalbert, Dr. Reiko Fueting, Dr. Marie Kimura, Dr. Zhou Long, and Dr. Chen Yi. In 2025, he will study with Dr. Macos Balter and Dr. Zosha DiCastri.
He has participated in the Atlantic Music Festival (AMF) Composition Program, the ILMEA Composition Intensive, the American Composers Orchestra’s (ACO) “Compose Yourself!”, the Interlochen Arts Camp Composition Program, the CYSO Composition Seminar, and the Berklee College of Music HSCI program. He was composer-in-residence for Eastman Strings from 2021-2023 and has been featured on WFMT’s “Introductions” three times. In 2023, he won second place in two categories for the ILMEA composition competition.
His works have been performed by musicians of the Peabody Conservatory, the AMF Contemporary ensemble, AMF Festival Orchestra, violinist Yvonne Lam, ATLAS Quartet, Arneis Quartet, Interlochen Ensembles, the Manhattan Brass Quintet, pianist Yoko Hagino, musicians of the Civic Orchestra, pianist Christian Clark, and the CYSO Philharmonic Orchestra,Gaudete Brass Quintet, and the Fifth Wave Collective.
Upcoming commissions include a chamber work for the OLEA Ensemble, violin etudes for the Illinois Music Educators Association, and a film score for “Magick Without Tears” by director Justin Gao.
As a violinist, Jaime focuses on new music and avant-garde performance. Through the DNMC, he released a call for scores of solo violin works by living composers. Most recently, he performed Salvatore Sciarrino’s Second Caprice at Columbia University. In 2022, he performed “Chicago Nightlife” for solo violin and loop pedal at the Midwest Clinic. He was a violinist in the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra (CYSO), CYSO Classical Repertory Ensemble Orchestra, served as concertmaster and auxiliary violist of the Northside Chamber Strings, and performed with the Resurrection Choir and Orchestra. While in CYSO, he participated in recording “Storyteller”, an album of new trumpet concertos by living composers. He currently studies violin with Maja Cerar at Columbia University through the Music Performance Program (MPP). Previously, he studied violin with Corina Lobont, Irina Zinevich, Rolando Freitag, and Melissa Arbeter at DePaul University.
Under CYSO Music Director Allen Tinkham he was a “Music Director’s Conducting Fellow” and received instruction in conducting, ear training, and music theory. He was also a participant in Cadenza Conversation’s seminar on Mahler’s Second Symphony.
Jaime is a graduate of Northside College Preparatory High School and is currently pursuing a music composition and philosophy dual-major at Columbia University in New York.