The percussionist Miguel Zárate, from the Chamber Orchestra of Chile, died at age 62, the Ministry of Cultures in their social networks reported Tuesday.
“Today we said goodbye to Miguel Zárate, a tummy and percussionist of the Chilean Chamber Orchestra since 2010,” said the entity.
Zárate was a “passionate musician, generations trainer and percussion teacher. A man who dedicated his life to share music, to live it in community and to take her to every corner of the country he visited.”
“Working on what I prepared is a gift. And doing it at OCCH is doubly remuneration,” said Zárate once with emotion. “We will remember: happy and generous,” said the publication of the Secretary of State.
“All our support and understanding for your family, members of OCCH and friends. And we will continue to live their legacy through their music and humanity.”
For its part, the Anfucultura Ministry officials union sent “a hug and our condolences to the family and close to our partner and solo timbale of the Chilean Chamber Orchestra.”
“Miguel leaves us an invalistic artistic, cultural and educational legacy in the Chilean Chamber Orchestra of the Ministry of Cultures, since passing through the Symphony Orchestra, by the Chilean Philharmonic, his studies at the university of Chile, his participation in the Usach Orchestra,” said Jorge González, president of the union.
“In all these places, he left a mark at the University of Chile as a professor at the Chair of Percussion and Music, and we have only to remember it for each concert that he gave us, for each class, for every emotion that made us feel.”
He also reported that the farewell will be this Wednesday with a musical work, at 2:30 p.m., at the front of the California Theater, located at Av. Irarrázaval 1564, commune of Ñuñoa, and then perform its funeral, at 5:00 p.m., in the park of the memory located at Av. Américo Vespucio 555, Huechuraba.
Path
According to the Ministry’s website, Zárate began his formal percussion studies at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Chile in 1975, in the Chair of Percussion directed by Ramón Hurtado Jorquera. In 1976 the Rythmus percussion group of the same faculty and its permanence until 1982.
In 1977 he was invited to integrate the percussion row as extra into the Chilean Symphony Orchestra performing Mahler’s third symphony under the artistic direction of Peter Richter. That same year, he is invited to play the Puccini Turandot opera with the Chilean Philharmonic Orchestra. In 1982 he won the contest to integrate the Chilean Philharmonic Orchestra where its permanence is until 2006.
The year 1992 and 1993 wins the audition for Pacific Music Festival, PMF led by Michael Tilson Tomas, a festival founded by Leonard Bernstein and held in Sapporo Japan. In this decade he participates as an instructor and trainer in the Foundation of Youth and Children’s Orchestras (FOJI).
In 1996, teacher Juan Pablo Izquierdo is the head of Carnegie Mellon Philharmonic Orchestra dependent on this university, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, he creates a scholarship and exchange program for professional Chileans where he travels through a semester to study with the outstanding American percussionist George Gaber.
Integrated the Concepción Symphônica Orchestra, the Usach Orchestra, West Moreland Orchestra, Carnegie Mellon Orchestra. Since 2009 Professor of the Chair of Percussion and Chamber Music of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Chile. He played under the batches of Christof Eschenbach, Maxim Schostakovich, Michael Tilson Tomas, Yutaka Sado, Eigi Oue, Francisco Rettig, David Shallon, Fernando Rosas and Juan Pablo Izquierdo among others.
“For me to work on what I prepared is a real gift and doing it in OCCH is doubly remuneration for the work we give to the community, live music in remote places of this land makes me the happiest musician and human being in the world,” said the musician in the same place.
“Since I always listen to music and always leave more than one headache to my mother because of the noise I did when I sat at the table and start playing with the services everything that went ahead.”
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