miércoles, 8 de junio de 2016

Ararat Music's Alumni

  ARARAT MUSIC SCHOOL
Creator and Visionary

Ararat Music is a talent incubator located in Mexico City, directed by musician and producer Alejandro Aznavwrian. This art centre has dedicated more than 15 years to the formation and professionalization of young talents in music, giving them the opportunity to acquire a scholarship in foreign and prestigious universities.




This formation is part of the "Professional Course", where students take classes of Composition, Arrangement, MIDI, Audio Engineering, Transactional Analysis, Film Scoring, Production, Classical Guitar, Electric Guitar, Percussion, Piano, Vocals, Electric Bass, Flamenco Guitar, La Técnica al Filo (Technique for fusion guitar), History of art, Organology, Octave intonation adjustment, Interpreter's psychology, etc.. This tools are strenghtened throughout the course and in the end, the student learns to produce by watching and helping a professional musician, as well as recording their own music and recording their classmates, with this they demostrate they can be a professional musician and a producer. 

Alejandro Aznavwrian:
"Madrid"- From the album La Guitarra al Filo:


Alejandro Aznavwrian is the creator of a technique for fusion guitar, called "La Técnica al Filo", based on percussive rhythms and cadences from flamenco guitar and latin american music. This technique focus on developing a concert guitarist, in rhythm, harmony and melody, joined with percussive techniques and strumming. Throughout his career he acquired a signature guitar made by Andalusian Guitars, and an exact copy of Paco de Lucía's guitar. Leading to the creation of his own brand, Aznavwrian Guitars.

Disc and Book of "La Guitarra Al Filo", album that debutes the technique for fusion guitar:
  

Andalusian signature guitar for Alejandro Aznavwrian.












Copy of Paco de Lucía's guitar









 La Técnica al Filo requires a few modifications in the guitar: such as plastic micas, an extra harmonic bar and a section of the neck filed down.


















 Ararat Music School's Alumni 

Throughout the years Ararat Music's development has improved considerably, allowing students to learn more and use their abilities to become a professional musician, audio engineer, composer, instrumentalist or producer.
Graduated students from the professional course have won competitions taken place in foreign countries. This article focuses on showing examples of  students that completed the professional course, and gained a scholarship in different universities of the United States:

Jorge Orpinel:
Jorge Orpinel won a scholarship for NYU: NYU Steinhardt Dean's Scholarship: 2011-12
Publications:
Demonstration of the Gordon Music Database project at the ISMIR 2010 conference at Utrecht, Netherlands. See marl.smusic.nyu.edu/projects/gordon-music-database
Demonstration of the Music Inter-Visualizer project at the ISMIR 2011 conference at Miami, FL.
Images below.
    Jorge Orpinel at NYU:
Jorge Orpinel with Alejandro Aznavwrian at a flamenco concert given by Ararat Music School:

Work from the University involving Jorge Orpinel:
Demonstration of the Gordon Music Database project at the ISMIR 2010 conference at Utrecht, 
Netherlands. See marl.smusic.nyu.edu/projects/gordon-music-database


Demonstration of the Music Inter-Visualizer project at the ISMIR 2011 conference at Miami, FL.

Alejandro Guerrero

Alejandro Guerrero won a scholarship for Michigan University, after he graduated from the professional course in Ararat Music. He also won a record deal for winning a 60x60 music competition.
Alejandro Guerrero in Ararat Music:
Alejandro      Guerrero in Michigan University

Winner of new music on the block, in Michigan University:

Fernando Yaird Alanis Arguello
Student graduated from the professional course, won a scholarship for DePaul's University:
 Featured in page:
 http://resources.depaul.edu/distinctions/featured-stories/Pages/sounds-just-right.aspx




Yaird in Ararat Music School with Alejandro Aznavwrian:


Daniel Hernández López

Daniel Hernández won the Sterling and Vila Thompson Scholarship Fund in Waldorf College, Iowa, after graduating from the professional course:
Via Waldorf College's site: http://www.waldorf.edu/residential/about-us/news/campus/2014/approximately-200-students-honored-at-waldorf-coll
Open Mic Night in Waldorf College:


Event in Baladino:



Daniel Hernández in Ararat Music with Alejandro Aznavwrian:

 Disc recorded in Ararat Music:
Daniel Hernández in 2014 with the new students of the professional course:


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