Armenia
For the first time, Quindío has Philharmonic Orchestra of the University of Quindío and the Institute of Fine Arts
In the midday newscast on Friday, May 31, Caracol Radio Armenia originated its broadcast from the administrative headquarters of the University of Quindío on the occasion of the launch and first concert of the Philharmonic Orchestra of the alma mater of the Institute of Fine Arts, there are 49 musicians not only from Quindío but from various regions of the country and from different professions.
Sebastián Martínez, director of Fine Arts at Uniquindío
It is a source of pride, also because andThis is not only the Orchestra of the University of Quindío but it is going to be the Philharmonic Orchestra of the department, it is a gift that we give from our Alma Mater For all of us Quindians, 8 years ago, we began to do as the academic information of the Institute within that comes the proposal of teacher Diego to create the Symphonic Band and the Symphonic Band is that band that allows us to begin to give the children the necessary knowledge in a large format today what we do is unite the bowed string group with the Symphonic Band and allow us to create the new Philharmonic orchestra of the University of Quindío where students have benefited from us like David who has studied there at the Institute, also students from other careers who have had musical processes elsewhere and well here at the university and we have teachers we even have the case of one of our violinists who studied At the Institute he graduated in chemistry. Here at the university he is part of the orchestra and today he also works in the chemistry laboratories.
Caracol Radio with the director of the Philharmonic Orchestra, the Director of Fine Arts and the violinist of the Uniquindio orchestra
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Dream come true Philharmonic Orchestra of the University of Quindío
It is a dream not only ours, but I believe that all of us who have been musicians in the department We see at some point dreamed about that and it will also go very hand in hand with the undergraduate music degree that this week we presented to the Academic Council and let’s say that it is a historical debt with the department with the youth that that life of art and in this Now the countdown begins for the opening of the undergraduate degree in the future, we already have to start writing and working and presenting and meeting all the requirements demanded by the Ministry of Education and the University.
Diego Palacio director of the Philharmonic Orchestra, Uniquindío
Diego, He has been the father of the Symphonic Band. He has been the one who has been working with the band for many years. And of course I believe that we have to value that within our university, because we have to value the efforts and desire that has been put into it and of course it was the call to start this training process. The Philharmonic Orchestra is made up of 49 musicians.
Screenings of the Institute’s University with the Philharmonic Orchestra
The director of Fine Arts explained, from now on, we have to work much more, we have to propose, for example, competitions for soloists of the department who have been accompanied by the orchestra, you also have to start dreaming about composition competitions for the orchestra can launch these processes and hand in hand with the construction of the undergraduate music degree in the future, what we must do is strengthen the orchestra with this training process, since hopefully it will happen soon, we estimate that in a year or so it will be able to fulfill its all the requirements and from then on, what follows is to establish the sound of the orchestra and for it to become a symbol and an icon of the department Well, in turn Diego Palacio director of the Orchestra because the idea is to also support new arrangers and composers in the region who can write it in this format. So it seems important to me that, if at some point the orchestra can play music, it is unpublished.
David Gómez Ramírez violinist
David Gómez Ramírez he is violinist of the philharmonic orchestra of the University of Quindío is a third semester Systems Engineering studentis an orchestra of Quindians for Quindians, Colombia and the world and explained why the violin “there is something funny when I started with the violin when I was 5 years old I already heard the guitar so I thought that the violin in the guitar and well, but then I ended up liking it, it’s also very cool and then I started in the world of music in a town called Santiago de Tolú in the department of Sucre, I started in the Cantares Foundation, which was a foundation supported by the European Union, it was already over and then I said My next step was to a conservatory in the department in the capital of the department Sincelejo and unfortunately due to the pandemic I had to stop, but I came to Quindío to study engineering. I really like the topic of computers and technology.
The violin and engineering
More than anything thanks to my mother, who has helped me a lot to have these two activities that are very important to be complementary, because the study of engineering is complex, it requires a lot of concentration, and playing the violin is another concentration too much and there are many works that one has to take into account.
