Claudia Liliana Gantivar holds a Master of Arts in Recorder Performance from the Conservatory of Music in Geneva, Switzerland (2004). She has performed and taught in Europe, the U.S. and South America. She has recorded with the Ensemble Elyma (Switzerland, 1997), Musica ficta (Colombia, 2007), Esfera Armoniosa; www.esferaarmoniosa.com (Colombia, 2009, and 2015). After moving to the USA in 2009, she collaborated in the Early Music program at the Palm Beach Atlantic University in Florida. In California, she has been a guest conductor at several recorder workshops, has served as a member of the faculty of the SFEMS Recorder Workshop, and has played recently with the California Bach Society, the American Bach Soloists, and the Farallon Recorder Quartet. As a teacher, Claudia teaches piano, recorder, ear training and music theory to her students preparing them for the ABRSM test. www.claudiagantivar.com