Oscar A
Instruments: Violin
Styles: Classical, Electronic, Avant-garde
Oscar A
Instruments: Violin
Styles:
Classical, Electronic, Avant-garde
Where I Teach:
Ages Taught: 10-80
Bachelor Degree: University of Central Arkansas
Finalist in the MTNA Young Artist Competition, May 2019.
First prize “Best Mendelssohn Perfomance” March, 2017.
Selected to be part of the “Youth Orchestra of the Americas” 2017.
Second Prize “Young Soloists” Bolivia, June 2017.
First place in the Iberoamerican Contest for Young Musicians,"MUSICA DE MAESTROS"
I am a Bolivian violinist/composer who grew up homeschooled with my two parents being educators. They would always emphasize the idea of the impossibility of teaching someone, meaning that I would have to teach myself before every class with them. Further in life, I was able to build reading, practice, and exercise habits due to this dynamic. After finishing high school at 16, my violin professor asked me to help him with students, something that I never thought of doing, but I agreed if the classes would not be with the professor-student dynamic. That is how I have been exercising my love to share knowledge with students of all ages.
My official experience as a teacher began during my college years in a community school. I would teach mainly young beginners for a couple of years. Later, I only expanded my interest in teaching towards private lessons, as I found fundamental conflicts with my philosophy and the way our culture understands music learning. I try to share my love for many other areas in a way the student finds little glimpses of direction, so they realize that learning an instrument is a way to interact with the Real that underlies what we understand as education. In other words, learning an instrument implies learning about your unconscious, to learn directly about how you can make your body your ally.
My methods come from a large literature that not only includes American pedagogies but many other European and Russian ones. However, I don't think of my students as subjects to this knowledge, but as shapers and creators of unspoken literature, one that speaks and connects with them. Given the fact that everyone's physiology and psychology are unique, I can only create a very unique approach and method for every particular student. This is a work that I don't do it by myself, but constantly share and built it with the student. I share all I can so they learn to teach themselves.
I like to focus a lot on the basics, on mastering a connection with the mechanics of the bow and left hand. I don't focus too much on songs unless the student is ready or would take the implications of the challenge seriously. I am a composer and current Logic Pro X learner, so I like to share and talk about sound in many contexts. We might do some exploration of how you perceive and execute rhythm, pitch, harmony, and others. We would do short listening exercises to work on our inner ear, a structure as complex and parallel to that of the conscious, if you cannot listen to it in your mind/inner ear you're very unlikely to play it. Therefore, although I am very focused on early master of the instrument mechanics, I am fascinated to explore sound beyond violin, classical music, or even out of this planet ! (sound depends on the chemical composition of the air as that is the medium that it uses to manifest)
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