[1] River Guerguerian's music has evolved through explorations of indigenous instruments, and their trance-inducing effect, gathered from travels around the planet.
[3] A respected music educator, he conducts rhythm and sound exploration workshops, and enjoys teaching privately.
He is also the music director of the Creative Technology and Arts Center hosted by the Odyssey Community School in Asheville.
River currently travels internationally with Turkish master musician Omar Faruk Tekbilek and drives his world jazz trio Free Planet Radio since 2001.
In 1994, River sold all possessions, left civilization for five years, and lived in the Binsar Wildlife Sanctuary in the Himalaya Mountains, where his first daughter, Amba, was born in 1996.