Evaristo Aguilar is at the Universidad Autonoma de Tamaulipas in Tampico, Mexico. He earned a doctor of musical arts at the University of Salford (Manchester, UK). He has studied in Mexico, Canada and the United Kingdom, and is a disciple of the masterful South Indian percussionist Trichy Sankaran.

He has developed different projects of rhythmic initiation for children and major percussion works based on the contemporary perspective of the music and sounds of the Mexican region of the Huasteca, collaborating with composers, performers, writers, photographers, sculptors, dancers and visual artists from all over the world. He has performed in China, Austria, France, Sweden, Italy, Spain, Poland, Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Switzerland, England, Canada, United States, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, Cuba and Puerto Rico.

Evaristo is the founder president of the PAS Mexico Chapter and the artistic director of the PercuSonidos Festival (Tampico International Percussion Festival). He is an endorser of Sabian Cymbals, Latin Percussion and Pro-Mark drumsticks.