Mexico and China collaborate to promote music and education

The Music School of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and the Central Conservatory of Music of China (CCOM) signed a collaboration agreement to promote academic and student exchanges, in addition to creating joint projects.

The students and professionals exchange will focus on the areas of interpretation and musical direction, between the orchestras of UNAM and CCOM .

Additional composition and interpretation projects will be contemplated by the Conservatory centers.

The agreement was signed by the director of the Faculty of Music, Maria Frenk , and by the president of the CCOM, Yu Feng , who invited Mexican students to participate at the singing contest to be held next October in China .

For her part, Maria Frenk offered a piano recital of Mexican music from the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries at one of the CCOM concert halls, where she explained to the Chinese audience the context of each piece.

Both institutions had previously worked on activities such as the International Music Festival CCOM-UNAM , which will be held for the third time this year, featuring the music group "La Fontegara," composed of professors of UNAM, who will present a selection of Mexican Baroque music .

In the same way, as a parallel event of the CCOM, the third forum of the International Council for Traditional Music was held, in which Gonzalo Camacho , professor of the Faculty of Music, participated with the lecture “Fandango in Mexico: Towards a Political Vision of Ethnomusicology.”

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