Emilio Caruso

Emilio Caruso

Instructor:

Drums & Percussion

Emilio is a graduate of San Diego State University with a Bachelor of Music in Applied Arts and Sciences. Since moving to Arizona, he has been awarded a 2000 Artist Project Grant from the National Endowment For The Arts through the Arizona Commission On The Arts, for independent study of Afro-Cuban/Brazilian folkloric musical forms and continued research of the similarities of language, rhythm, song and dance of those musical idioms. He has also been awarded a Glendale Performance Arts Grant for a series of concerts and lectures on Afro-Cuban/Brazilian musics and culture.