Jorge Bennett is a composer, a guitarist and a painter. He started taking guitar lessons when he was eleven with Panamanian professor Augusto Medina. By that age he already used to compose instrumental works for the guitar. He also used to experiment with different drawing and painting techniques, imitating his parents, who painted as a hobby. In 1985 he received his high school diploma in Science, Literature and Philosophy from Colegio Javier. In 1987 he studied Music Composition and Theory with Panamanian composer Francisco Castillo. In 1990 he was accepted at the North Carolina School of The Arts as a composition major under Sherwood Shaffer. He received his Bachelor of Music in 1997 from that institution. Since 1995 he has been working at the National Institute of Culture as a music teacher. In 1998 he started painting with acrylics, and he has made two individual expositions since: “Mundos y Contrastes”( 2000), and “Imágenes de Taboga” (2001). He has also participated in collective expositions. As a painter Jorge Bennett is self-taught.
Panama
