Gary Gibson

Gary is a Seattle-based musician with a 40+ year history in steel pan, and is an influential composer and performer of progressive music for the steelpan and steelband, blending his knowledge of classical and jazz music with his passion for traditional Caribbean rhythms and forms. He is known internationally as a clinician and concert/recording artist, and makes numerous trips each year to adjudicate at steel band festivals or be a guest concert artist with college and high school steel band groups around the country. Gibson has recorded four critically acclaimed albums of original progressive music featuring the steel pan, is the winner of two out of three categories of Trinidad’s “Symphony and Steel” composition contest, and is a national champion of Trinidad’s “Panorama National Steel Band Championship.” He currently is the executive and artistic director of “Steel Magic Northwest,” a non-profit organization that provides after-school steelband for youth in the Seattle area.