Conference Group Festival, a training opportunity for young instrumentalists
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About 150 youth members of the music gangs of the schools Moses Castillo ocaña de La Chorro, Gabriela Mistral at Arraijan and Bilingüe de Cerro Viento at Panama Center, were benefitted from the workshops and didactic concerts that were held simultaneously and that are part of the scheduled program for the second version of the Club of House Group Festival to be held from October 14 to 30 and that will be organized by the Ministry of Culture (MiCultura).
The training courses began on Saturday October 15th with the participation of the quartets Panama Brass Ensemble, Cerrud and Okama who were each at the schools referred to above to share some of their experiences and knowledge with the young musicians and directors of each of these musical bands.
To Amith Schreeves, director of the Music Band, Victor Raúl González at the Moses Castillo ocaña College emphasized that "it has been a fabulous experience because the boys have had that contact with one of Panama's best wind assemblies, so these activities have been an incentive to the student's culture and that they have been excited to continue on the path to music."
Fernando José, who plays a trombone in his music band at his high school, thought it was a great opportunity to explain how his members of the Panama Brass Reamble better to expand his knowledge about this type of music that they play and to be able to apply this organization and discipline within his music band.
The 2022 Camera Group Festival, promise to be an encounter to get into the dynamic of the clusters that highlight classical music through its formations in duos, trios, quartetes, quintetes and so forth, but it's a way to contribute and motivate the new generation of musicians so that they can design different ways to transmit and develop their musical talents.
One of the aims of these playful activities at the festival is to make public camera music and what it means by giving an opportunity to its protagonists who, through their musical repertoire, show them some of their characteristics as the specific number of musicians and instruments, their classification, training and order that they have to fulfill on stage and their origin, among other things.
Other training activities with a number of especially youth public have been scheduled during the weeks leading up to this festival, including the students at the Diversified Arts Center, the University of Panama's School of Fine Arts, the National Institute of Music and other educational centers and musical groupings that have been added to this initiative.





