Check Out Pamela Symphony’s Story

Today we’d like to introduce you to Eric Garcia.

Hi Eric, can you start by introducing yourself? We’d love to learn more about how you got to where you are today?
My name is Pamela Symphony.
A cellist, singer, composer and activist originally from Guatemala, based in Greeley, CO.

Film Score student at Berklee School of Music student in 2018.
I moved to the Colorado 4 years ago pursuing to finish my degree in Music Buisness at UNC.

As a performer, composer and singer,
I have played in different international and national festivals. Opening for Manu Chao in 2024, releasing “Fuego”, a song that honors the element Fire in the Mayan Cosmovision and elements of the Guatemalan culture.

My repertoire includes songs in where I sing and play cello, but also orchestral works, as “Guatemalan Portraits Overture”, a soundtrack for the Guatemalan feature film “Hogar Seguro” and collaborations in other Guatemalan movies like “La Llorona” (Oscar Nomination, Golden Globe Awarded).

Right now I finished my first symphony, “ETHER” which will be included in my fifth album “ELEMENTA” releasing soon.

Would you say it’s been a smooth road, and if not what are some of the biggest challenges you’ve faced along the way?
The artists path is a constant path of discovering your self and your own environment. Natural, Social, Spiritual.

In this road, the main obstacles are beyond talent. Specially if you’re a Central American woman, trying to pursue to compose music without having a big amount of women that has done that historically to inspire you.
If I ask you to mention composers you have heard, you will easily respond “Back, Mozart, Beethoven, etc”. But, could you mention any woman in this field?

I honor this is just starting to change and at the same time to realize it was not a fact that women didn’t have talent, women at that time didn’t have -opportunity.-.

We could probably say success is a matter of talent, opportunity and social context. ¿Which one can be in our hands to improve its accessibility?

The field can be as kind or raw depending on your social context.
The obstacles you will find
(about gender, social position, etc) can either turn you down or be the engine of your career.

In my case, I find out dignity is a decision and everything you do is a statement of the way you perceive dignity. This obstacles had inspired me and discover new ways to communicate my own statement and ultimately to a create dialog between us.

My music is a statement of dignity, friendship and active listening to the inner voice.

Appreciate you sharing that. What else should we know about what you do?
I play cello: electric and acoustic.
I play in events and my own music project as solo and and with my band Cacti Collective in where I play cello and sing connecting my roots and Avant garde sound technology.

I also do film score, for video games and movies.

The experience I am mostly happy about is my song “ FUEGO”, in where I produce the entire song and directed the video clip at the Fuego Volcano, an active volcano in Guatemala.

Do you have any advice for those looking to network or find a mentor?
1. Networking is professional field build by personal/conscious human treatment.

2. Treat everyone kind. You never know who’s gonna be your next boss, that person could be seating next or in front of you in the classroom.

3. A butterfly never laughs about caterpillars.

4. If it’s in your hands, promote protocols of equity, at your school or work space, so everyone can succeed in a healthy way in the industry they are targeting to be in.

5. As long as you are learning, you are not failing.

6. Nobody lids positively seeing in black and white. Try to see the hole colors palette.

7. Find your community.
Creative artists have the bad habit to work isolated. Music is made to be shared. Yes, music is a gregarious thing.

Pricing:

• Cello Lessons – 40 an hour
• Soundtrack – Film Project – depends
• Event – 250 an event
• Composition Lessons – 50 an hour
• Shows- depends

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.pamelasymphony.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pamela_symphony
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/1AC9Aw72Kf/
• Youtube: https://youtu.be/oqhimV_9rX8
• Other: https://open.spotify.com/album/6LytLdpfIIUHlhKVZ4Spgh

Image Credits
Ludim Photo
D20 Photography CO
Pamela Symphony