Alfonsina Parra

 Nancy and Randall Faber are the creators of the "Piano Adventures" teaching method. Nancy was born en Jackson, Tennessee in 1955. She studied both performance and composition at the Eastman School of Music, then went on to get a Bachelor Degree in Composition and Master of Fine Arts Degree in Musica composition. Randall was born in Michigan in 1954. He received both a Bachelor and Masters Degree in Piano Performance from the university of Michigan, a Mastesrs Degree in Instructional Design and a PhD in Education and Human Developed. They met in 1977 and then got married, decided to create a piano teaching method that, thanks to their piano knowledge and education, is one of the most effective and popular in the world, has been translated into many languages and It is widely used in Chile. These methods address a large number of categories, and are divided into 3 big groups: teaching children, adolescents and adults. Each of them has volumes that address classical music, jazz...

 I love go to the concerts, I usually go, the last one I went was last tuesday in CorpArtes, at the premiere for Piano Concert composed by Jorge Peña Hen. If I think in of my favourite  it is difficult, I think they are all different experiences, but there is one that I always remeber.  In 2014, my teacher (at that time my new teacher) did a concert playing all 12 of Claude Debussy's studies, these studies are so difficult! she spent 10 años practicing them to be able to play them, I was very impressed. In that year she implemented an "interactive concert" modality where there was a narrator and a projection of images to feel more familiar with the composer Claude Debussy, she wanted to explain everything that was happening whit her music. For my little 11 years old me this was great, I felt so attentive to the concert and I enjoyed it so much. In classical usic concerts there is some kind of "tradition" in wich the performer should just go quietly to sit and pl...

 Claudio Arrau is (for me) the best Chilean pianist of all time, and one of the best in the world. He was born in Chillan, he was the son of a doctor and a pianist, he was exceptional from a very young age, when he was 4 years old he could play Beethoven, at 5 he played his first concert in Chillán. Later he debuted in Santiago at the age of 6, a year later he played in Buenos Aires and when he turned 11 he played in Berlin, Germany. He received a scholarship from the Chilean government to study in Germany and he went with his whole family. When he was 16 years old he won the "Liszt prize", this award had been declared "desert" for 45 years, Arrau won it again the following year, when he was 17 years old. It is really impressive! At the age of 18 he returned to Chile, at that time he was already an international level pianist, at the age of 20 he went on tour to the United States and played as a soloist in the most important orchestras in the country, and was the fi...