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I started studying music at the age of 8 years.
At 14 I graduated as an accordionist...
and after that...
I entered the National Music Conservatory,...
after finishing high school.
By this time I was already 17.
With 26 I graduated as a violinist...
and with 27 as an orchestra conductor.
Then I went to Italy to study...
a master's degree on Direction and a doctorate.
This is a normal tour of the Philharmonic,...
we are going to Ticui in Atoyac de Alvarez,...
to the coffee fair.
An integral and important part...
of what this Philharmonic does...
is this kind of tours...
in which, obviously, we take the whole orchestra...
and go to play, in this case, to the municipality of Atoyac.
This is important because it`s the coffee fair,...
the most important event in Atoyac.
And like Atoyac, we are going to a lot of municipalities...
that have their patron saint celebration or a fair...
or an otherwise important event.
so obviously the whole philharmonic will go there.
We do this gladly because...
not only will we deliver our musical message...
but also obviously...
carry this cultural artistic baggage...
throughout the state of Guerrero.
What a place right, impressive.
So this is one important part of what the Philharmonic does.
Today we are going to a "Concert Muncipal".
But we go also to the municipalities...
to give didactic Concerts.
Which are also very important.
I would like to pint out...
that this is basically the Main Work of the philharmonic.
Doing the didactic work,...
we go to schools, municipalities...
and obviously give two concerts in a day,...
Something that no other orchestra in the world does.
We are giving two Concerts on the same day.
It`s like 2 Standards.
Do you remember... like it was in the movies before.
It`s the same here.
We first give a concert for the little ones,...
i refer to the ages between 6 and 12...
and then for the ages between 15 and 18, even for Universities.
This is a very important job the Philharmonic has to do...
which of course we will continue to do.
Of course also in coordination...
with the Education Ministry in Guerrero.
What is important to me are the Objectivs of the Philharmonic.
Which were established from the beginning...
and which get fully fulfilled.
-Which are those Objectivs?
To raise the musical level of the State of Guerrero.
In this regard, and in those terms...
I can tell you that before...
there was no musical taste. Now there is.
Previously there was no knowledge of what music is,...
now an average of 100 000 kids per year...
are receiving direct information...
with the Acapulco Philharmonic.
We started with 63 elements,...
63 fellow musicians...
and we were like 5 or 6 people in the administration,...
3 in the technical area...
and nothing more.
So it was a beautiful experience...
to start it all off.
The auditions...
not only in Mexico,...
but also over the Internet...
came people to Mexico City...
others came directly to Acapulco.
And the first concert we gave was in Atoyac, precisely.
If we remember well the situation of the first concert...
then it was on April the 12th 1998,...
practically 13 Years ago.
The work of an orchestra conductor.
What does an orchestra conductor, speaking in a musical sense?
Right now you are seeing more or less the technical aspect,...
the administrative aspect... coordinating people etc...
But musically speaking...
it is basically a job of coordination and criteria unification.
At this moment we have 83 musicians,...
we should have 90 but right now we have 83.
There are 83 different personalities,...
83 different ways of looking at life,...
of feeling and playing the music.
and it would be impossible for them to agree.
Obviously there has to be a head,...
there must be leadership.
Not only in a musical Sense,...
but also, technical and administrative and everything you want.
But in the musical aspect it is important that you as a conductor...
because of your studies, your experience,...
your ability, for all that you have and do in your artistic life,...
in that moment you have a very clear vision of what you need...
from your orchestra.
Our primary purpose is to interpret the music of the great Maestros...
and I am not referring only to a Tchaikovsky...
or Brahms or Beethoven,...
to a Margarito Demian Vargas,...
or Agustin Ramirez...
many great composers, no matter the genre...
are the ones who make the music become alive...
in a sense, that the music truly comes alive in the human beeing.
in a sense, that the music truly comes alive in the human beeing.