Alfonsina Parra

My favorite subject this semester has been chamber music. This is a subject in which I must form small groups with musicians to play together, in this we must learn about playing music collectively, to understand each other, listen to each other, make musical decisions together, and know that we are all equally important to the time to make music. Respecting each other and learning to make decisions with other musicians, is a skill that we will have to use throughout our entire career as instrumentalists, we will not always play as soloists and many times it will be something together, which personally seems to me a very fun and friendly experience. . This is the first year that I really have this subject, I also had to take it in 2021 but in online modality it could not be carried out well, I never met my classmates, we could only "play together" synchronizing videos from our homes digitally, and my teacher that year had a particular way of doing classes that didn't help...

In today's post I will talk about my pet named Pepina. Pepina is an Argentine parrot, this is a very abundant species in Chile, which have been classified as pests, since they make "collective nests" so heavy that they can knock down trees or large branches and cause accidents. However, it is their nature and I think they are not to blame. Pepina arrived at the garden of my house with a wing injured because a cat attacked her, hurt her wing and it began to bleed. When I captured her she was very scared and aggressive, she was trying to attack me. After a while a bird vet came to see her and she did not resist being taken, the vet said that it meant that she was very bad and depressed so she was resigned to die. She started a treatment of antibiotics but she stopped eating, and the stress caused by being locked up made her go into a state of pulling out her feathers, she became malnourished and weighed 60g (her normal weight is 100g) Then her wing didn't get better and...

 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...

I think this picture is one of my favourite pictures in the life, in this you see my grandfather and me in 2007, my father taken this photo. I dont have many memories of my grandfather as I would like, but this moment I  remember it well, my father put the electric piano on the table and I started to play, I dont know how to do it but my grandfather said I was good at it. After the photo, he took out an old voice recorder and began to "interview" me about why I liked the piano and what I was playing, I was 4 years old in this moment, I answered many nonsense things, but I sounded happy, because I loved visiting my grandfather.  In 2009 he had cancer and could not recover, I think the humanity lost something when he left. I know that if he were here now he would  continue to support me like he always did

 This is a really difficult question to answer, I think nobody can choose a only one, or at least I can´t. I think in my life I have had many "favorite movies", when I was a child, my favourite movie was "Shrek 1", then was "Hotel for dogs",  and so many others. But in these last years, there is a movie that made me feel something special, it was like finding something of my own in this one, and it expressed exactly a lot of what I thought. This movie is "Princesa Mononoke" direct by Hayao Miyazaki. This movie expressed the infinity war between nature and progress human, the biggest criticism is that que human ambition is capable of destroying everything. One of the situation in this movie, is one of the situations in this movie is that one of the characters wants to steal the head of the "servant god", which symbolizes the life of the forest, and almost at the end of the movie, he does it and runs away with his head, this causes the fo...