All kinds of pieces were played: traditional – like Floreo de Remis or muñeira de Barganaz with drumming –; Some of Sonsoles Rodríguez Granda’s own compositions with piano accompaniment; works with electroacoustics, such as Professor Jorge Carrillo’s ‘Xana’, which is actually the first piece heard at 9 am; or ‘Zero’, by María Mendoza, compulsory study for three students.
And with this expression of versatility most Asturian instruments are signed as a “historic day”. The day of the final concerts First presentation of the Asturian bagpipes From the ‘Eduardo Martínez Torner’ (Consmupa) Higher Conservatory of Music, Principality of Asturias. “After four years of higher education and fourteen years of official studies,” said Daniel Meré, one of the three Piper Piper heroes of the day, “the icing on the cake.” The promotion also includes Marco Antonio Guardado del Valle and Fabián Fernández Fernández.
“It is a historic day, because it ends a long process that began more than 25 years ago with the opening of the first traditional music schools for the education of bagpipers; then they followed the regulated studies on primary and professional degrees and now finally Asturias has the first generation of pipers with higher qualifications. With the same thought as others: what an architecture graduate, an engineer, or a violinist might have”, Fernando Agueria expressed emotion.
The degree put in place while Genaro Alonso was Minister of Education was a debt pending with the traditional musicians of the region, and Agueria emphasized this. higher education justification of several generations of piper and now they are a reality. We were asked to have only what the Galicians have had for many years, or what the Basques or Sevilleans have long had degrees in the Interpretation-Instruments of traditional and popular music”.
Daniel Meré Fernández from Bañugues, 25, one of the youngest heroes of the day, openly expressed his satisfaction with the day he lived and said, “We are the pioneers. With this step, we succeeded in putting the Asturian bagpipe on the ground. same level of demand as any of the other instruments from the conservatory. I think this is something that undoubtedly brings prestige to bagpipes and bagpipers.” Fabián Fernández, 28, from Llanera, has been studying music for 24 years and has been playing the bagpipe specifically for “22 or 23 years”. Now this won’t be his first degree in music, for he got his Music History and Science while awaiting the gaita’s unsettled degree.
He argues that what he has been able to confirm and demonstrate to other musicians in this four years of higher education is that the bagpipe is not a small instrument and has no more or less limitations than any other. Let them tell the overseer of two bands, one is the band that the bagpipes follow step by step with the marching band and percussion instruments. “We knew from day one that we were paving the way”, says Fabian Fernandez.
Almost the most senior of the recent graduates is Marco Antonio Guardado del Valle, 37, from Sotobar. “Today has been very exciting. And it’s more for the pleasure of graduating with them who were my students years ago.”
The trio also expresses the need for the bagpipe to keep moving forward as any other instrument would. And this assumes that graduates should be given a similar professional opportunity to other instrumentalists, they insist. “We have received the highest level of training and we still have steps to climb“, they say. They dream of forming official bagpipe bands for qualified musicians. “It can be bagpipe bands, as is the OSPA of Asturias; or professional orchestras containing our instrument”. Here it is.
Source: Informacion
