ARTIST BIO
2000 ALTAZOR Chilean Art Award Winner, as the best musician of the year and winner the best lazz album this year 2008. He has been nominated as the best musician of the year 2006 and best alternative album in the year 2007. His own albums include Jazz, Fusion, Chilean and Latin American rhythms and Experimental Music: CHRISTIAN GALVEZ (2000) – CERO (2002) – DINAMICA SOLISTA (2004) – CHRISTIAN GALVEZ TRIO(2005) , CHRISTIAN GALVEZ TRIO VOL.1 Live DVD (2005) – AMERICA LUZ (2006). IMAGINARIO(2007), IMAGINARIO EN VIVO CD-DVD(2008),CRISALIDO(CD,2009),CINETICO(CD,2010), CRISALIDO LIVE CD-DVD(2011). He has been invited frequently to record and/or play with great international artists, such as: STANLEY CLARKE BAND- BILLY COBHAM – MIKE STERN – SCOTT HENDERSON- IVAN LINS- LENI ANDRADE – FAREED HAQUE – VALERY PONOMAREV – DELMAR BROWN – ROBBY AMEEN – KENWOOD DENARD – RICK LATHAN – HORACIO “EL NEGRO ” HERNANDEZ – RICHIE “GAJATE” GARCIA – MIUCHA BUARQUE – LAURA CANOURA – CHI CHI PERALTA – AMERICA CONTEMPORANEA – LUIS SALINAS . performances in Cinars Montreal Festival (Canada) – Koktebel Jazz Festival (Ukrania) – World Music Festival (Milwaukee, USA) – Old Town Folk Music (Chicago, USA) – Blue Note (Milan, Italy) – Blue Note Cotton Blue, Motion Club (Osaka, Nagoya, Yokohama, Tokyo, Japan) – Latin American Festival of Corumba Mato Grosso do Sul (Brazil) – Festival of Latin American Music of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) – Margarita Island Jazz (Venezuela) – Medellin Jazz Festival (Colombia) Mendoza DrumFest(Argentina). Teacher in UNIACC University (Santiago, Chile). – Founder, Artistic Director and Producer of PEZ RECORDS, with more than twenty Jazz and Contemporary Music albums recorded since 2004.DIRECTOR OF THE “ESCUELA SUPERIOR DE JAZZ”, SANTIAGO DE CHILE.”