The technology in my life

I think technology is a very good tool to facilitate the work of any profession.  In my case, as a musician and singer, I use technology a lot to communicate and organize many things on my agenda, organize my scores for my study and concerts.

In this globalized world I think it is very important to have social networks.  In my case, social networks have helped me to know more people, to make my work known, since I don't usually upload videos of me singing, I don't like them.  Fluent and rapid communication is also a result of the progress of technology and globalization.  Today it is very useful have WhatsApp, it helps me to communicate with my whole world, family, friends, or work.

A couple of years ago I worked at a couple of schools in Puente Alto.  During my process as a teacher, I used huge visual technological tools to teach entertaining music lessons.  I used the projector a lot to do lessons with slides, we watched movies, my students exhibited their works and presentations, etc.

Another useful element for me, during my process is the voice recorder.  I had a voice recorder when I began to study singing, thanks to this object I recorded my classes and so after reviewing the recordings, I knew things to improve for the next class.

Finally, I want to talk about an object that I talked in a previous blog, the iPad. I find this tool tremendously useful for me as a musician.  Before, I had to walk with a huge amount of books and scores in my backpack, thanks to the iPad, I do not need to have extra weight in my backpack and I help the environment with not unconsciously using prints.

Effectively, using and knowing how to use technological tools help us if we use them in a good way.

So much to do!!

My challenges for 2020 are so many.

First of all I would like to further improve my technique to be a better singer.  Therefore I am focus on studying much more, than previous years, to start singing in more places and make more auditions.

This year I started with very good news, I was appointed to be a stage director in an Opera Company, the Compañía Lírica Disidente. My biggest challenges are focused on being able to work, in the best possible way, in this company, we are in the creative process to perform many operas productions, in fact, we are in the creative process to release an opera in Chile, the Debussy’s L’ enfant prodigue.

I want to do many more soloist concerts.  I am organizing a piece composed for solo baritone and string accompaniment, the Schubert’s Winterreise.  This piece of music was composed for singing and piano, but I got a arrangement made by a Danish arranger, the cellist Richard Krug, who was very happy to give me the arrangement to do it here in Chile. This composition, the Winterreise, was transcribed for him, for voice and string quartet, two violins, a viola and a cello. In Chile this version has not been made, so another of my great challenges is to sing this work with four musicians. 

As you can see, all my challenges are related to music.  Along with that I want to improve my grades, be consistent in the gym (this is so difficult for my hahahaha) to travel more, interact better with those around me.  I have another challenge very present, I want to start taking more music to places where there is no access to enjoy a concert.  I feel that my obligation as an artist of the Facultad de Artes of the Universidad of Chile is to generate community, so I am mentalized for do the social work that motivates me to be a better artist, daily.

Caribbean blue...

My best vacations were when I went to Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, in 2018.

It was a very nice experience because I was accompanied by my whole family.  My aunts, uncles, brother and parents. There were 10 people on the trip. It was so funny because there were some of my uncles who had not traveled in plane, so they didn't know places far away or out of the country, for them it was an experience.

The beaches in Punta Cana are wonderful, like a Kem island hahahaha.  On the day we were sunbathing, we went to the beach or to the pool, where there was an open bar, so you could imagine that it was very entertaining. 

In the night we were going to dinner at thematics restaurants, and after we went to the theater, where they presented a huge amount of shows, theatre plays, musicals, concerts and even karaoke. I sang so much in the karaoke.

We take tours in the capital of the Dominican Republic, Santo Domingo and also a distant island in the Caribbean Sea, called Isla Saona.

Although the weather there is extremely hot and humid, you have to stay constantly hydrated, obviously with beers and other refreshing drinks.

It can be quite expensive to pay the ticket and be in a hotel in the Caribbean, but I really recommend that if you can raise money for a while and you can give yourself a pleasure for a well-deserved vacation, to enjoy, eat good whatever you want, have fun, and enjoy the warm water of the Caribbean, do it.  It will be an experience you will never forget.

I’m in a New York State of mind

All my life I’d love visiting a special and magical place, New York, especially Broadway. I would like to be there because it must be extremely incredible to know the biggest theater circuit in the world, the Broadway circuit, which has forty theaters.

In addition to singing opera I am an amateur and lover of musical theater, in Broadway you can enjoy the most famous and acclaimed musicals in the world.

In New York there is also one of the most important opera houses in the world, the Met, which I also dream of meeting. Of course I would be full days going to theater plays, musicals, touring the circuit. I wish I could be see operas in the Metropolitan and who knows, maybe at some point in my life I can sing in this great theater.

In New York there are a lot of tourist attractions such as Times Square, the Empire State Building, the Statue of Liberty, Central Park and a huge number of museums and parks.

I would honestly like to visit New York alone. I think it would be a tremendous personal learning to travel and live this experience on my own. 

I recommend this place for the simple fact that nobody could get bored. New York has so many things, places and attractions that time could fly by without us noticing.