Jaime Garcia-Anoveros is a NYC / Chicago-based composer, violinist, and President / Co-Founder of the Deleuze New Music Collective (DNMC). He has been playing violin for fourteen years and composing for six.

Jaime currently studies composition with Marcos Balter at Columbia University. Previously, he completed studies with Jessie Montgomery, Kevin James, Amanda Harberg, Ben Hjertmann, and Eric Malmquist.

In addition to these, he has taken lessons with Zosha DiCastri, David Ludwig, Chris Dobrian, Amy Beth Kirsten, Pierre Jalbert, Reiko Fueting, Mari Kimura, Zhou Long, Chen Yi, Cynthia VanMaanen, and Ryan Suleiman.

This upcoming summer, Jaime will receive premieres by the PHACE Ensemble and Irene Arditti at the Vienna Contemporary Composers and SoundSCAPE Festivals. Previously, he participated in the Atlantic Music Festival (AMF) Composition Program, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s Young Composers 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 New England Conservatory, 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, CYSO Philharmonic Orchestra, Gaudete Brass Quintet, and the Fifth Wave Collective.

Recent commissions include a new solo work for the SoundSCAPE festival, a Spanish-language song cycle for tenor Evan Sercombe, a chamber ensemble 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 specializes in new music, classical improvisation, and avant-garde performance, but he also explores other performance practices. This summer, he will be opening the headlining artist at Lollapalooza Chicago. Most recently, he performed seven new works at a DNMC recital in Boston, including Salvatore Sciarrino's Second Caprice and six pieces by young composers. Through the DNMC, he released a call for scores requesting solo violin works by living composers; 38 winners are in the process of having their works performed and recorded. In 2022, he performed “Chicago Nightlife” for solo violin and loop pedal at the Midwest Clinic.

Regarding ensemble work, Jaime 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.

Jaime García-Añoveros