Miguel Ángel García Martín (Zamora) is a percussionist, performer, and composer active in various contexts such as contemporary classical music, improvised music, multidisciplinary performances, and experimental music.

Miguel is a sought-after music-theatre performer and has contributed to the creation of productions for leading houses and festivals across Europe — from the Staatsoper Berlin, the Residenztheater and Theater Basel to ECLAT, MUSICA, the Biennale di Venezia, the Munich Biennale, and KLANG Copenhagen. In parallel, he is regularly present on the European new-music scene, with performances at the Donaueschinger Musiktage, the Darmstadt Summer Courses, the Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik, the Lucerne Festival, the Ruhrtriennale, and the Heidelberger Frühling, among others.

Fascinated by sound since childhood, García has made it his trademark. Shaped by a broad spectrum of influences and years of personal sound research, his sonic palette draws on extended techniques, instrumental preparations, objets trouvés, and unorthodox amplification. This allows him to tailor his set-ups individually to each project while maintaining a distinctive personal voice.

As a chamber musician and band member, he is part of Ensemble Lemniscate and the Kaspar von Grünigen Bottom Orchestra and performs regularly with groups such as Collegium Novum Zürich and Basel Sinfonietta. He also collaborates with further ensembles including Neue Vocalsolisten, Collective Lovemusic, N.E.S.E.V.E.N and HYPERDUO. Beyond the concert stage, he is a member of the interdisciplinary theatre collective Fachbetrieb Rita Grechen and was part of the percussion quartet ET|ET from its founding in 2011 until his departure in 2023.

In recent years, he has increasingly established himself as a composer, developing an autonomous artistic language ranging from sound installations such as Txirimiri to concert and stage works. These have been presented at venues including Kaserne Basel, the Origen Festival, the Tonhalle St. Gallen, the Spielart Festival Munich, EXIT Montevideo, the Aargauer Kunsthaus, Gare du Nord Basel, Musikfestival Bern, the FOG Festival Basel, and others.

As a soloist, Miguel moves between large-scale, immersive concert programmes — such as his recent programme Aufbau/Abbau — and more intimate, site-specific works with reduced means, curated for museums and exhibitions.

As the father of two children, he places special importance on cultural exchange and artistic mediation with young audiences. He has conceived and realised projects for institutions such as KWerk Basel, the Abegg Foundation, Gare du Nord, Open Haus Basel, the ZeitRäume festival, CNZ and Musik Wagen Luzern. Between 2017 and 2022 he was part of the Gare des Enfants team, and since 2025 he has been a member of Tonstör.

Building on his diverse experience in performance and composition, García shares his knowledge in masterclasses and workshops at institutions including the Kunstuniversität Graz, the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe, the Hochschule für Musik Basel, the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg, the Hochschule der Künste Bern, the Mixtur Festival Barcelona, and the EXIT Festival Montevideo.

Miguel has been based in Basel since 2010, where he completed two Master’s degrees at the University of Music Basel. There he studied with Christian Dierstein and took lessons with Alfred Zimmerlin, Fred Frith, Anton Kernjak, and Hopkinson Smith. He has recorded for labels such as Kairos, WhyPlayJazz, OUS, Musiques Suisses, and Epicentre Editions.