Hello everyone!

An hour and twelve minutes episode!!! I know, it's long. But if you are a music teacher, music educator, tutor and conductor, music student, especially if you want to bring your musical and artistic expression to its maximum impact potential, you simply cannot afford not to listen to this episode in full!  I am sure this will be the one-hour-and-twelve-minutes best spent listening to a podcast!

The Musethica project was cofounded by Avri Levitan and Carmen Marcuello in Zaragoza, Spain.  The project by now has grown exponentially and attracted a global audience.  Avri was even invited to give a TED Talk about this project.   According to its web page, the Musethica project "is an education method enabling exceptionally gifted musicians  and their tutors to improve their interpretative skills and to develop  their inspiration, listening, and musical abilities. The method has a  strong and direct social impact, providing society with live concerts of  highest quality."

Check out their page and get involved, and if you can, support them to bring world class concerts to social groups that traditionally have limited opportunities to benefit from the transformative power of music.

Put on your headphones, get inspired and until the next episode!

Marcelo

Give to Musethica! (https://musethica.org/support-musethica/)

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Welcome to Episode 12 of the impact.arte podcast!

In this episode I am pleased to introduce you to Chantal Balestri.  An accomplished piano soloist and international music professional, Chantal has taught at universities in North America and Europe.  She is also the co-founder of the Lunigiana Music Festival.   This music festival's mission is to provide young talented  musicians from all around the world with an opportunity to be inspired by world-renowned musicians and gain additional knowledge of the music industry and how to develop a career  in it.  The festival aims to attract young musicians from every corner in the world, no matter of geographical and financial barriers.

Check out the festival's web page and hopefully you will be motivated to get involved!

I hope you enjoy the conversation with Chantal and I look forward to reconnect with you at the next episode of the impact.arte podcast.

Marcelo

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In this episode I have the pleasure to talk to a talented Italian violinist, Rosita Tristano, about her approach to finding a balanced and mindful mind-body connection when it comes to practicing an instrument.

Rosita tells us about her journey and how she found Yoga teachings also useful for her violin practice and life in general. Rosita also mentions why we all need to be able to find some rest from our inner chat whenever needed, especially before and during an instrument practice session, and the many benefits of body awareness for music and any other activities we engage in.

If you are studying an instrument, or even if you are a professional musician already, I am sure you will find Rosita's practical advice quite helpful and motivating.

You can find Rosita and get in touch with her on Instagram @rositatristano.

Take care and I'll meet you again at the next episode!

Marcelo

En este episodio tengo el gusto de conversar con la Luthier Maria Machado, Luthier proveniente y radicada en Tucumán, Argentina. En esta conversación Maria nos cuenta sobre sus estudios de lutheria y sobre la práctica de esta profesión, especialmente en el contexto de la pandemia.

Durante la charla, conversamos con Maria sobre los aspectos más importantes a tomarse en cuenta para quienes desean o planean estudiar lutheria. Asimismo, Maria comenta sobre las oportunidades en Latino America para realizar estos estudios.   También comentamos con Maria su experiencia de llevar adelante un programa de enseñanza de lutheria online. 

Para quienes quieran conectar con Maria, pueden encontrar sus datos de contacto en su pagina web:

https://mariamachadolutheria.com/

También pueden encontrar a Maria en Instagram (@mariamachadolutheria) o en su pagina en Facebook.

Measuring Impact

There are two fundamental pillars for any social impact and development project: measurable impact goals and measuring metrics.  Measuring the impact achieved by a music project, both at the individual as well as the community level, is fundamental to enable understanding of its effectiveness, its true transformational potential, as well as for its scalability and replicability.   Also, developing and deploying a reliable impact reporting framework is crucial for more effective and successful fundraising and funding efforts.

In this conversation, Sara Zanussi shares with us her experience and research on how to understand and measure the impact of a music or music education project. She provides insights from experiences in Colombia, Tanzania and Georgia.

I hope you find these insights and inputs helpful for your music education, or social impact through music project!

For more information on the projects and resources Sara refers to during the conversation, you can check out the following pages:

Research poster for her research in Colombia.

Batuta Music (Spanish only) - the music education project in Colombia

Research on the Batuta project (Spanish only) - for research undertaken on the experiences of the Batuta Project

Project Tambores de Siloe in Colombia

Medellin transformed to art city from crime capital - NY Times article (requires subscription)

Georgian polyphonic singing - for a glimpse of what the Georgian singing sounds like, as mentioned by Sara

Research on choir: singers heartbeats synchronize, singers volunteer and more.

Take care and let's connect again at the next episode!

Marcelo

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Música Para Respirar

Cuando se desencadenó la pandemia el 2020, un grupo de jóvenes músicos profesionales bolivianos esparcidos por todo el mundo que conforman una organización llamada Sociedad de Música de Cámara de Bolivia (“La Sociedad”), decidieron usar la música para dar un respiro a las victimas del COVID en Bolivia.   La idea de ofrecer un concierto privado online a pedido pronto ganó solicitudes de diversos lugares dentro y fuera del país.   Al momento de la publicación de este episodio en septiembre de 2021, la Sociedad reporta haber realizado 3,399 conciertos, los cuales llegaron a 12,036 oyentes y que involucró hasta 80 músicos profesionales.

Este episodio es la grabación de mi conversación con algunos de los promotores de esta idea:

Escuchen hasta el final de la conversación, ya que serán recompensados con unas interpretaciones en vivo que realizaron Karin, Camila y Bruno.  Karin presenta una pieza de violín solo de Nicola Matteis llamada Passagio Rotto, mientras que Camila y Bruno presentan no solo una pieza de clarinete y trompeta, respectivamente, sino que las preceden de unas poesías en aymara de la celebrada poetisa boliviana Elvira Espejo.  Imperdible!!!

Visiten la pagina del proyecto en www.musicapararespirar.comy estén pendientes para solicitar un concierto privado para sus seres queridos.

Hasta la próxima!

Marcelo

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The Art and Science of Violin Making

I couldn't be more excited to present to you the second part of my conversation with Julia Maria Pasch!  As you may have heard in the first part of this episode, Julia is an amazing German violin maker currently residing in Vienna, Austria.  In this conversation Julia shares her journey into violin-making, her studies at the School of Violin Making in Bavaria, Germany, and her inspiration to become a creator of new instruments designed to let contemporary musicians express the most avant-garde musical expressions in violin performance.

Julia explains the evolution of the violin-making technique since the time of Stradivari, Amati and Guarneri del Gesu, and what made them special. She then elaborates on what  the key elements are to create a contemporary violin.  For those considering a career in violin-making or lutherie, Julia shares her thoughts on what needs to be considered and what to expect when jumping into such a career.

You cannot miss this episode if you are interested in how stringed instruments work, how violins are constructed and what makes a violin unique and precious!

I hope you enjoy this conversation with Julia, and I look forward to reconnecting with you in the next episode of the impact.arte podcast.

Stay healthy and safe!

Marcelo

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Julia's web page: https://www.paschviolins.com/

Julia's Instagram: @Paschviolins

Performances with a Pasch Violin:

   https://www.paschviolins.com/kuenstler

   https://www.youtube.com/user/neonynos/videos

   (in the YouTube channel you can find this video where Friederike Starkloff mentions her Pasch violin)

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Artists/characters mentioned: Chritian Tetzlaff, Peter Greiner, Daniel Baremboim, East-West Divan Orchestra, Antonio Stradiviarius, Giuseppe Guarneri (del Gesù), Nicolò Amati, Carlo Bergonzi, Giovanni Battista Guadagnini.

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If you are interested, here is a link to an interview of Christian Tetzlaff talking about his Peter Greiner violin.

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Hi there!

I hope you all stayed safe and healthy throughout this time.  After a long hiatus the impact.arte podcast is back and trying to catch up with all the exciting conversations in store for you!  I am especially stoked to do so with this conversation with an extraordinary contemporary violin maker from Germany: Julia Maria Pasch.

I was lucky enough to be able to visit Julia at her workshop in Vienna back in 2019, at the Wagner Villa. This conversation was recorded in the same room where composer Richar Wagner worked on his opera Die Meistersinger von Nüremberg between 1863 and 1864.  As Julia tells us, there was a poignant evening concert taking place in this residence on the evening of 7th February 1864, with significance for the history of European music. Richard Wagner hosted the event for an exclusive group of artists living at the time in Vienna. Among them, a much younger Johannes Brahms.  Wagner, predicating on the Work of Art of the Future, while Brahms mastering "the old forms" (as Wagner himself declared that night).

Listen to this introductory conversation for a taste of what is it like to live and work in a house with such signficance in the history of music.

I continue the conversation with Julia in the second part of this episode to talk about her life as a successful contemporary violin maker. You can't miss it if you want to hear about what makes a Stradivari violin so special, and what it means in the context of contemporary violin making.  Cooming up soon!!

I want to thank Julia for graciously hosting me at her workshop in the Wagner Villa to record this whole episode. Check out her web site here.

Credits:

Die Meistersinger Akt I Fanfare - Recorded live at the Bayreuther Festpielhaus in 2010.

Sexttet in B Flat, J. Brahms, 2nd Mov, Opening fragment Violin I, by yours truly.

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