Strange Land - Full Album PDF
In my artistic creation I have always sought freedom, the one in which I try to let my ideas flow freely. It couldn't be different when writing the introduction to this album. Here, I try to make a self-reflection that I would like to share with everyone.
On August 5th, 2018, I was at the Portland OR airport lounge waiting for my flight to NYC. It was the beginning of a journey that I am still on today. I remember that I was reading the news from my country and I came across a story that caught my attention. Iranian mathematician Caucher Birkar had won an important award, the Fields Medal, and that year the award ceremony was held in Brazil. However, while he was greeting some of the guests, he left his bag with the medal on a chair, until he realized that someone had stolen it.
This could have happened in any country, coincidentally it was in mine. The fact is that, after a few days, the award organization promoted another ceremony to give him a new medal. What caught my attention was that he, very humbly, thanked people for coming to the awards again and said a phrase that marked me: "If I let these things affect me I would neverhave come this far". I researched his biography and got to know his incredible story of Overcoming adversity, and this inspired me enormously because I knew that I would have to overcome many challenges in this new phase of my life. And I was right, the challenges were and are constant, but every time I felt discouraged or even failed, I remembered Birkar. I consider the making of this album somehow a part of this confrontational spirit to overcome unwanted obstacles.
Arriving in Newark, I soon started teaching at a small music school, which I will always be grateful for. However, we did not have the necessary material for the piano course for children, and at that time, I did not have the resources to acquire them either. It was then that I decided to compose for my students, starting to analyze what each one, in particular, needed to improve in learning, and so for each case I started preparing a composition. In principle, the material produced was very simple, but little by little I realized that my students were increasingly interested in the repertoire, and this led me to believe that it might be a good idea to dedicate more time into increasing the difficulty of the pieces little by little. That was how the newer pieces appeared, and many of them were titled by the students themselves, so I am very pleased to present them in this publication.
Each of these compositions addresses different aspects of piano technique and language. My purpose with the elaboration of this album is to contribute so that the apprentice feels enthusiastic when discovering the repertoire, and that they will acquire skills that can be useful to them in the vast piano repertoire that awaits them.
In my artistic creation I have always sought freedom, the one in which I try to let my ideas flow freely. It couldn't be different when writing the introduction to this album. Here, I try to make a self-reflection that I would like to share with everyone.
On August 5th, 2018, I was at the Portland OR airport lounge waiting for my flight to NYC. It was the beginning of a journey that I am still on today. I remember that I was reading the news from my country and I came across a story that caught my attention. Iranian mathematician Caucher Birkar had won an important award, the Fields Medal, and that year the award ceremony was held in Brazil. However, while he was greeting some of the guests, he left his bag with the medal on a chair, until he realized that someone had stolen it.
This could have happened in any country, coincidentally it was in mine. The fact is that, after a few days, the award organization promoted another ceremony to give him a new medal. What caught my attention was that he, very humbly, thanked people for coming to the awards again and said a phrase that marked me: "If I let these things affect me I would neverhave come this far". I researched his biography and got to know his incredible story of Overcoming adversity, and this inspired me enormously because I knew that I would have to overcome many challenges in this new phase of my life. And I was right, the challenges were and are constant, but every time I felt discouraged or even failed, I remembered Birkar. I consider the making of this album somehow a part of this confrontational spirit to overcome unwanted obstacles.
Arriving in Newark, I soon started teaching at a small music school, which I will always be grateful for. However, we did not have the necessary material for the piano course for children, and at that time, I did not have the resources to acquire them either. It was then that I decided to compose for my students, starting to analyze what each one, in particular, needed to improve in learning, and so for each case I started preparing a composition. In principle, the material produced was very simple, but little by little I realized that my students were increasingly interested in the repertoire, and this led me to believe that it might be a good idea to dedicate more time into increasing the difficulty of the pieces little by little. That was how the newer pieces appeared, and many of them were titled by the students themselves, so I am very pleased to present them in this publication.
Each of these compositions addresses different aspects of piano technique and language. My purpose with the elaboration of this album is to contribute so that the apprentice feels enthusiastic when discovering the repertoire, and that they will acquire skills that can be useful to them in the vast piano repertoire that awaits them.
In my artistic creation I have always sought freedom, the one in which I try to let my ideas flow freely. It couldn't be different when writing the introduction to this album. Here, I try to make a self-reflection that I would like to share with everyone.
On August 5th, 2018, I was at the Portland OR airport lounge waiting for my flight to NYC. It was the beginning of a journey that I am still on today. I remember that I was reading the news from my country and I came across a story that caught my attention. Iranian mathematician Caucher Birkar had won an important award, the Fields Medal, and that year the award ceremony was held in Brazil. However, while he was greeting some of the guests, he left his bag with the medal on a chair, until he realized that someone had stolen it.
This could have happened in any country, coincidentally it was in mine. The fact is that, after a few days, the award organization promoted another ceremony to give him a new medal. What caught my attention was that he, very humbly, thanked people for coming to the awards again and said a phrase that marked me: "If I let these things affect me I would neverhave come this far". I researched his biography and got to know his incredible story of Overcoming adversity, and this inspired me enormously because I knew that I would have to overcome many challenges in this new phase of my life. And I was right, the challenges were and are constant, but every time I felt discouraged or even failed, I remembered Birkar. I consider the making of this album somehow a part of this confrontational spirit to overcome unwanted obstacles.
Arriving in Newark, I soon started teaching at a small music school, which I will always be grateful for. However, we did not have the necessary material for the piano course for children, and at that time, I did not have the resources to acquire them either. It was then that I decided to compose for my students, starting to analyze what each one, in particular, needed to improve in learning, and so for each case I started preparing a composition. In principle, the material produced was very simple, but little by little I realized that my students were increasingly interested in the repertoire, and this led me to believe that it might be a good idea to dedicate more time into increasing the difficulty of the pieces little by little. That was how the newer pieces appeared, and many of them were titled by the students themselves, so I am very pleased to present them in this publication.
Each of these compositions addresses different aspects of piano technique and language. My purpose with the elaboration of this album is to contribute so that the apprentice feels enthusiastic when discovering the repertoire, and that they will acquire skills that can be useful to them in the vast piano repertoire that awaits them.
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