Andrea Pryor de Manrique is a percussionist based in New York. Her presentation of chamber works for percussion by Latin American composers has won grants for three consecutive years (2003, 2004 and 2005) from the Queens Community Arts Fund and New York State Council on the Arts Decentralization Program. Andrea holds Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Music (Percussion Performance) from the University of Illinois in Urbana. Since 1994 she has been traveling to Cuba to study percussion and Afro-Cuban folklore. In 1999, she won the John Anson Kittredge Education Fund for research of folkloric musical traditions in Santiago de Cuba. Her articles have been published in CBMR Digest and Percussive Notes. Andrea has performed in the legendary Casa de la Trova in Santiago de Cuba and has been invited to participate in PERCUBA in Havana and Fiesta del Fuego in Santiago de Cuba. She is on faculty at Adelphi University, Concordia Conservatory and St. Joseph's College. Andrea is endorsed by LP Percussion.