Postgraduate studies

 

 

I am currently in the last year of my career, and although it is very long (10 years), I would like to continue studying. In fact, this year I tried to gather the requested documents to apply for the pedagogy plan taught by the University, but unfortunately they still do not send me all the documents, so I couldn't apply, but I hope to be able to apply for the next year. I am very interested in studying pedagogy since it is something I have been dedicating myself to in recent years, and doing that has made me very happy, for the same reason I would like to acquire better tools to teach better. I think that no matter how much you know about an area, if you don't know how to teach it, it is very difficult for learning to emerge in another person.

Besides, and complementing my career as a musician, I would like to specialize in Latin American music, but I have not yet looked for if there is a graduate or master's degree dedicated to that music, but if it is necessary to travel to study, I would do it without thinking. The same happens with chamber music. From 2016 to this year I was part of a guitar quartet “Cuarteto Movimientos”, in which we played classical and Latin American music, and arrangements of orchestral music. In this quartet I used to play guitar, but also to make arrangements and some compositions. I learned a lot from them. It's something that has helped me lose my fear of being original and creating new music. Due to the good experience I had with them, in addition to other projects I have had, I think that perfecting myself in chamber music can be a great window for many opportunities, in addition to having the academic degree to teach it within the University.

 

English IV video 1 - Chamber music class.

Link to the video: https://youtu.be/FZoB5CsRySM

 

My future job

My future job definitely has to do with music, I'm sure of that. For example, compose music, arrange music, record videos, and prepare concerts. But, complementary to this, I would like to work teaching music and guitar. I am sure of this because I have recently dedicated myself to these tasks, and I have enjoyed them very much. I have also traveled to some parts of the country to do concerts, and it is very entertaining. I would like to tour to the north, center and south of Chile, giving priority to communes and rural localities where it is not usual to see concerts. At the same time, I would like to offer open classes and workshops in the places that I will travel. Travel around Latin America or Asia, offering Latin American music concerts is a dream for me. Travel and meet music from different places of Latin America. So I think, in that sense, this would be an outdoor job.

On the other hand, I really like doing classes, it reinforces my idea that music can be a good thing for people, and helping from my study area is something very rewarding. For that reason I plan to do the major in pedagogy, which our university teaches for related careers. Having a music pedagogy degree, I will be able to teach high school students. This, in addition to being interested in teaching, means a way to get a fixed salary, something that in the life of an independent musician, that is, only with concerts or with private lessons, is very difficult to achieve. In relation to money, I do not have great ambitions. Living with what is necessary is enough for me, but I hope that by being creative and dedicated I can live the best possible.

My quarantine hobby.

 

Since the quarantine began, in my case since March, I have been watching many series and movies, something that perhaps has helped many to cope the confinement. However, what I have enjoyed the most during these months is making music videos. This is something that if it weren't for the quarantine, I couldn't be doing it, nor without the help of my girlfriend, obviously, who is a photographer and has been living this quarantine with me.

Between us two we in charge of doing everything, I take care of interpreting and equalizing the music, and she is in charge of recording, framing and later coloring and lighting the video. We do the montage of the video together, I help to choose the take changes according to the musical moment of the piece that I'm playing, and she corrects me if it visually agrees with the music. Once everything is ready and reviewed, we export the video and upload it to my YouTube and Instagram channel.  

 

We have recorded all the videos at my house, except for some that we recorded in the countryside, near Talca. A couple of days before national holidays we left Santiago, it was quite an adventure. The picture on the top is a capture of one of the videos we recorded there. 

 

Make these videos together has been a great way to stay active as it is related to what we know and like. To date we have made 16 videos, most of them are of Latin American music, such as Violeta Parra and Atahualpa Yupanqui. We have many ideas yet to do, so many more videos will come!