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| Curriculum Summary: Text Format<\/a> o PDF<\/a> |<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hi! I’m Ferm\u00edn, musician and violist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here I describe my professional career<\/strong>, mentioning many of the people I have learnt from, because I believe that naming them is a way of thanking them. Above this paragraph are the links to my Curriculum Summary<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n

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I began my music studies<\/strong> thanks to the support of my family and my first violin teacher, Alicia Swords. I continued my studies in harmony and violin with Rie Watanabe, Alban Usatch, Pedro \u00abSangeet\u00bb Wood and Rafael Nava Curto. I graduated from the ‘University of Sciences and Arts of Chiapas’ (UNICACH), where I studied viola with Noelia G\u00f3mez Gonz\u00e1lez and completed a research project entitled \u00abRelations between the Visual and the Auditory\u00bb<\/strong> supervised by ethnomusicologist F\u00e9lix Rodr\u00edguez Le\u00f3n.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I attended viola and chamber music masterclasses<\/strong> from El\u00edas Morales Cari\u00f1o, Roc\u00edo Orozco, Ludovica Mosca, Laura Esnaola, Luis Ll\u00e1cer, Brendan Conway, Peter Schmidt, Cyrille Purro, Germ\u00e1n Bringas and Roberto Pe\u00f1a Sommer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In theoretical subjects and instrumental ensemble courses, I received guidance from F\u00e9lix Rodr\u00edguez, Patricia \u00abPilla Piano\u00bb Reyes, Ciro Liberato, Claudia Herrer\u00edas, Salatiel Cruz, Bulmaro Ruiz, Sven Merzbach, and Douglas Bringas. Concurrently, I took the diploma course \u00abFormaci\u00f3n de Formadores\u00bb<\/strong><\/em> (teacher education) with Educreando A.C. (2009) and Pedagogy Workshops (2018 and 2019) with Rie Watanabe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I played in the UNICACH Symphony Orchestra under conductor Rafael Nava Curto (2007\u20132009). I collaborated on the artistic projects of saxophonist Pedro Wood (2007\u20132010), played in the San Crist\u00f3bal de Las Casas Youth Symphony Orchestra (2012\u20132013), and was a member of the UNICACH String Camerata (2010), conducted by Noelia G\u00f3mez.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In August 2015, I took part as a guest musician in the staging of \u00abFragmentos de un d\u00eda de niebla\u00bb<\/strong><\/em> (Fragments of a Foggy Day), a work by playwright Alicia Z\u00e1rate, contributing with original compositions<\/strong>. Subsequently, Alicia invited me to compose the music for the credits of the short film version of \u00abUn d\u00eda de lluvia\u00bb<\/em> (A Rainy Day), wich premiered in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n

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I performed as a soloist at the San Crist\u00f3bal de Las Casas International Cervantino-Barroco Festival<\/strong> in 2018. In 2020 was released the video \u00abThe Viola: From New Spanish Music to the Folklore of Chiapas\u00bb<\/strong>, funded by a grant from the State Council for Culture and the Arts of Chiapas (CONECULTA). In 2021 I gave a lecture on the same subject at the Francisco I. Madero Theater in Tuxtla Guti\u00e9rrez.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I worked in the Musical Initiation Course<\/strong> (CIM) in the Faculty of Music at UNICACH from 2015 to 2023, teaching violin, viola, and orchestral ensemble, and serving as academic adviser. I taught violin, viola, and musical initiation, and conducted the Chiapas-Japan Cultural Alliance String Orchestra<\/strong> (an alliance founded and coordinated by Rie Watanabe).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2025 I completed the University Master\u2019s Degree<\/strong> in Musicology, Music Education, and Early Music Performance jointly offered by the Universitat Aut\u00f2noma de Barcelona<\/em> (Autonomous University of Barcelona) and the Escola Superior de M\u00fasica de Catalunya<\/em> (Catalan College of Music), studying viola with Manfredo Kraemer. My master’s dissertation, \u00abCritical Transcription for Viola of Telemann\u2019s Methodical Sonatas<\/em>: From Baroque Practice to Historically Informed Performance\u00bb<\/strong>, was supervised by violinist Germ\u00e1n Echeverri Chamorro. In my theoretical subjects and instrumental ensemble, I learnt from Emmanuel Balssa, Llu\u00eds Coll, Lorenzo Coppola, Alba Roca, Luca Guglielmi, Mara Galassi, Marta Almajano, Oleguer Aymam\u00ed, Pedro Memelsdorff, Xavier Blanch, Javier Artigas, Xavier Puertas, \u00darsula San Crist\u00f3bal, Ruben L\u00f3pez Cano and Lambert Climent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have had the opportunity to collaborate with Elena and Miguel Mu\u00f1oz Ruiz, the Orquesta Caf\u00e9 con Pan<\/em>, Felipe Cruz Contreras, Omar de La Cruz Courtois, Daniela Pinz\u00f3n, Areli Cruz and the rock band Los Thompsons<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As well as music, I have a strong interest in the visual arts<\/strong>, astronomy<\/strong> and the design of WordPress-based websites<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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