Shanti Lalita Gallard

Shanti Lalita is a musician and inter-disciplinary artist, born 1990, in San Juan Puerto Rico. Her body of work includes solo cello performance, musical composition and improvisation, creative writing, theater and puppetry, and the production of independent multidisciplinary events and festivals featuring local artists. Her studies range from Composition in the Musical Theory Department at the Conservatory of Music of PR, Creative Writing and Interdisciplinary Studies at la Universidad de Puerto Rico, to Sound Engineering at el Liceo de Arte y Tecnología. Shanti currently is a Development Officer and Teaching Artist for educational non-profit Sonic Arts for All!, producing events via her platform Lalita Productions and directing fem-arts group Arquetipas. As a musician, Shanti has formed part of groups like La Orquesta Sinfónica Juvenil de las Américas, Macha Colón y Los Okapi, La Sociedad Sonora del Amor, Los Cerezos, La Banda Municipal of Makula Barun, among many others; also creating live soundtracks for theater performances of Bread and Puppet Theater, Y No Habia Luz, Poncili Creación, and most recently Deborah Hunt.