![]() Now is composing the music of on La Guaracha del Macho Camacho by Luis Rafael Sanchez’s book, produced by Pregones/PRTT opening on 2019 fall season.ĬHILDREN’S THEATRE COMPANY is the nation’s largest and most acclaimed theatre for young people and serves a multigenerational audience. Composer, arranger and Musical Direction of Red Rose (2005), Aloha Boricua (2008), Harlem Hellfighters on a Latin Beat (2010), Los angeles se han fatigado (2003), Dancing in my cockroach killers (2012), I like it Like that (2016), Marchers. Also, Desmar has done many workshops on Musical Theater, Bomba, Plena and Jazz among other styles, throughout the United States, Europe and Latin America. He has composed jingles for national-level accounts and has performed and toured extensively throughout Europe and Latin America, as lead pianist, with legendary artists Pleneros De la 21, Song by Four, Celia Cruz, Tito Nieves, Pete “El Conde” Rodriguez, Louie Ramirez, Paquito Guzman, Andy Montañez, Conjunto Clasico, Alfredo De La Fe, Ray De La Paz, Ismael Miranda, Luigi Texidor, Justo Betancourt, Soledad Bravo, Lalo Rodriguez, Herman Oliveras, Franky Morales, Franky Vazquez, Domingo Quinones, Papo Pepin, Afromantra, Jose Alberto“El Canario”, Cano Estremera, Hector Tricoche, and Xiomara Fortuna, among many others. ![]() 2008 Ford Foundation FY12 Summer Creation Fund Awards NPN. He has been pivotal in developing an original musical theater repertory that employs traditional Afro Puerto Rican instruments in unfamiliar and highly stylized settings. He is the recipient of a 2002 National Theater Artist Residency Program Award from the Theater Communications Group and the Pew Charitable Trusts, a 2003 BRIO Award in Composition from the Bronx Council on The Arts, and a 2004 “Individual Artist Fellow” recipient from the New York Foundation for the Arts. ![]() DESMAR GUEVARA is the Musical Director of the Award-winning Bronx based theater ensemble, Pregones Theater and PRTT.
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