David García Saldaña is a Los Angeles Mexican-American Chicano composer whose choral work draws on folk music and traditions. His compositions have been performed by the Los Angeles Master Chorale, SACRA/PROFANA, and The Sunday Night Singers, and he has received commissions from the Los Angeles Unified School District and Cortines High School for the Arts. García Saldaña approaches Latinidad as a dynamic identity, expanding Latin American music narratives to include the U.S. Latino voice. He has taught from middle school through college and currently teaches Music Theory and Composition at Pasadena City College. He serves as Western ACDA Composer Track Co-Chair.

García Saldaña collaborates frequently with artists in both dance and theater, creating content ranging from incidental music to new musical theater works. You can find him performing throughout the Los Angeles area with different vocal groups, and, at times, on electronics. He has a special focus on composing vocal/choral works that utilize electronics in a variety of manners throughout the creative process. David García Saldaña is a graduate of California State University Long Beach’s Bob Cole Conservatory of Music’s M.M. in Music Composition and UC Santa Barbara’s College of Creative Studies B.A. in Literature with a dual emphasis on Analysis and Creative Writing.