Carlos Garza is an award winning composer and keyboardist who has performed live in the Washington area since 1979.  He is a co-author of the score for the feature film Thirteen directed by David Williams.  The film was awarded a jury prize at the International Forum of New Cinema of the 48th Berlin International Film Festival. It has been shown at international festivals in New York, Toronto, Hong Kong, and Paris.

As a founding member of The Young Professionals, he was an integral part of the legendary new wave scene at the 9:30 Club in the early 1980's.  In the late 80's he led the alternative pop group Danse Of Guilt to critical acclaim and numerous songwriting awards. He has also performed with Country music group, Tall Timber and the Rhythm and Blues oriented Greg Gaines Group.

He has performed contemporary jazz with the Bruce Middle Group and appears on the 1990 release Far and Beyond.  He performed, recorded with and co-wrote with Grammy award winning pop singer Margot Chapman of the Starland Vocal Band.  He performed original compositions and improvisations at weekly shows by the comedy troupe Gross National Product.  His music has also appeared on their PBS broadcasts.

He has judged the Mid-Atlantic Song Contest and been a judge in an east coast state music grant competition.  As owner and operator of Pepperland Recording he has engineered many albums.  As a producer, he has crafted many song  demos for aspiring pop, folk, and country songwriters.  He studied music theory at Frostburg State University and jazz piano with Wade Beach and Burnett Thompson.

Rich O'Meara is fluent in a wide variety of musical styles. As a member of One Earth Percussion Theatre, with Joseph McIntyre and Michael Wingo, he took part in innovative multi-media performances. He has performed with the Contemporary Music Forum, the Lenox Ensemble, and the New York based Sky Music. He was featured as marimba soloist with the Women Composers Orchestra and under the direction of Michel Camilo, was a guest artist at the 1998 Latin-Caribbean Festival at the Kennedy Center. With the new music ensemble Amaranth, he premiered Puzzle Piece for three marimbas.

He has composed many works for percussion and small ensemble, some of which are published by Music for Percussion and Marimba Productions. His piece for solo marimba, Restless, was required repertoire for the 48th International Competition in Geneva, Switzerland. He took second place in the 1999 Percussive Arts Society Percussion Composition Contest with looking at "r", for two marimbas. His compositions can be heard on the Audite Schallplatten and the Koch Discover International record labels.

He has also spent time playing jazz on vibes, marimba, and MIDI percussion with the Bruce Middle Group and Millennium; and alternative rock as drummer for Kismet.

He has served as part time music faculty at Goucher College and the Levine School of Music. He  studied percussion with Randy Eyles, Gar Whaley, Ron Barnett, and Leigh Howard Stevens and received a Bachelor of Music in percussion performance from Catholic University in Washington, D.C.

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