The academic year has already begun at the ‘Samoeiro’ Municipal Music School in A Pobra do Brollón, with 107 students enrolled in one of the eight specialties offered.
The most popular classes are traditional dance and percussion (tambourine, drum and tambourine), followed by choir, music and movement (for children), bagpipes, accordion, piano and flute. Almost half of the 107 students are enrolled in more than one subject.
‘We are proud to have launched the Municipal School of Music eleven years ago and to see how each course is so well received by the residents of A Pobra, and also from neighboring municipalities,’ says Mayor Xosé Lois Maceda. ‘It is not only an opportunity to learn and improve musical skills. It is also a space to socialize and create community.’
Precisely for this purpose, to unite the residents of the different parishes of the Guimarães, a new feature of this 2019-2020 academic year is the cycle of itinerant ‘Foliadas Guímaras’. Each month, the social venue of a parish will be the setting for a party with free and open participation, in which students will be able to put into practice what they have learned. The first foliada was at the beginning of the month in Salcedo and we will soon announce the date and place of the second.
The Music School team is made up of Iago Domínguez in dance and other subjects, teachers Fernando Estévez, Jesús Luis González, and the teacher and director of the School, Ibán Pérez. The latter highlights the professionalism and quality of the teaching: ‘We are a team with many, many years of experience in teaching music and this is noticeable in the classes. In addition, we are a very versatile teaching staff. Traditional music has an indisputable weight in the School, but if a student is interested in playing jazz, for example, we can adapt.’
The class schedules and dates of the Foliadas Guímaras can be consulted on the website and networks of the A Pobra do Brollón City Council.
