You are invited to the multidisciplinary concert “Four Visions” by Paulina Derbez, at 6 p.m. on September 27 in the Glendon Gallery at Glendon College (2275 Bayview Avenue, Toronto), at the opening of the Festival of Words and Images. For more information, please consult the festival website here.
In 2005, my husband and I took the decision to move from Mexico City to Toronto, Canada. The motivation behind our move was both professional and personal, as my husband had lived a part of his childhood in Toronto, and I had previously had the opportunity to perform in one of Toronto’s major festivals. It […]
Through this course, children are introduced to the world of classical music in a fun, holistic and profound way. Students learn the basic elements of music through the use of images of nature, helping them to experience and perform it in a focused, spontaneous and natural way, and to realize that music lives within […]
Every time that the children in the courses I teach give a public presentation, I am always amazed by the different reactions of the public. Every reaction represents a new experience for me, which constitutes a valuable lesson in my journey as an artist and a teacher. In a course I gave recently, at the […]
In the winter of 1995, while studying violin in Lugano, Switzerland, I had my first contact with Zen Shiatsu. At the time, I was living in Comano, a suburb of Lugano, where there happened to be a shiatsu clinic. One day, while strolling through the cobbled streets of Comano, I met one of the therapists […]
During my time studying in Switzerland I had the opportunity to explore Waldorf education, founded by the philosopher, lecturer and writer Rudolf Steiner (1961-1925). Moreover, Steiner was the founder of the movement known internationally as Anthroposophy. My first contact with the Waldorf pedagogy was through a family that worked at the Steiner School in Lugano, […]
