I think the reason I decided to start studying music is because when I was a child, the piano at my grandfather's house caught my attention. For other side, when there were family meetings, my uncles played Latin American music on guitar, and that also caught my attention. So, since i was a child i like so much the music and the dance too, because i saw all the videos of Michael Jackson, and he was like a idol in my child. I think that my dream job always was be a musician, like a rockstar or a genius of classical music, like Beethoven or Mozart.


When I was 12 years old, my parents gave me a guitar, and since then I have not stopped practicing. I had private lessons for two years. At 14 years I started to study Bachelor of Arts in guitar performance at the Universidad Mayor Conservatory. The first two years I doubted if I would continue studying to be a professional musician, because I also liked literature and philosophy, and also, because the music career is so long (10 years of study), and other careers more "traditional" need less years of formal study.

I finally decided to pursue my career professionally, when I played for first time with an orchestra, when I was 17 years old. That experience was decisive for me. So, the next year i changed university, and i started studying at the University of Chile in 2014, when I was 19 years old. In this University i meet many people important to me, like my friends of my guitar quartet. I learn whit very good teachers, especifically of Chamber Music, and this is reason why I'm thankful.


Now, I am 25 years old and I am currently in the last year of my career, and I am preparing to take my final exam, which consists of playing a solo recital in public for over an hour. After this I would like to enter at the University's teaching programme, wich last two years, this would be something similar to a postdegree. I want this because with this degree i can teach on High School, i like so much teach music, and i think the education is a very important way to change the society. 

Little Bio

Hi, i am Rodrigo Saldívar. I was born in 20 of march of 1995, in San Miguel, Santiago, Chile. I am classical guitar performance student, in the Faculty of Arts of the U. de Chile, and actually study my 9th grade, the egress year of my career.

I love very much the music and the arts in general, in part, beacuse to my family this are very aprecieted. My grandfather and my grandmother studied piano and sing, they met on the Liceo Experimental Artístico, at the 50's. They ever played and listened classical music. For another side, my uncles of mother part are guitar player and singers of folclore music. They played protest songs and latin rhytms, and when i was a child these songs and music caught my attention very much.
I started study music at 9 years old, with a piano teacher. This teacher was also teacher of my grandfather, its mean, a very old man with a very old methodology, and to my this was very severe, for this reason i leave the piano lessons at few months.

At 12 i meet a friend and classmate who all his family played guitar and rock music. In this moment i only know the classical and folclore music, and to my this new music was very atractive, maybe because the speed and strong of this music. Then, i started play guitar obsessively, from this moment to today.