He performs his own compositions as well as tapping into native music of Colombia and Venezuela.

[1] He leads a trio with David Silliman on drums and Marshall Gilkes on trombone.

Edmar Castañeda began playing the harp at the age of 13.

[4] In the mid 1990s he moved to New York City and studied jazz trumpet before returning to the harp.

He has performed with Paquito D'Rivera, Simón Diaz, Lila Downs, Giovanni Hidalgo, Joe Locke, Wynton Marsalis, John Patitucci, Janis Siegel, John Scofield, Samuel Torres, Hiromi Uehara, Béla Fleck,[5][6] Antonio Sánchez,[6] and the United Nations Orchestra.