The Chilean vilinist and conductor, Miguel Angel Muñoz Saavedra, graduated as a violinist from the Conservatorio de Música of Universidad Austral de Chile and came to Santiago, where he studied privately with different teachers. Then, he entered the Santiago Philharmonic Orchestra and then the Chilean Symphony Orchestra. He later graduated in Superior Musical Interpreter Violin Mention at Escuela Moderna de Música y Danza I.P. (2007-2009); and currently studies for his Magister degree in Musical Interpretation at Postgrados Artes Universidad de Chile (since February 2020).
Miguel Ángel Muñoz has been a violinist with the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Chile for almost 20 years (since 2005) and, in addition, he has been a member of the UC Contemporary Music Workshop Ensemble and Camerata UNAB for 15 years, where he is concert-master. He has just joined the Department of Music of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Chile as an academic, as an instructor of the orchestra and as a professor of stylistic and violin practice.
In the last two years, that is, during a pandemic, Miguel Ángel Muñoz has participated in various installments of the Sacred Music Meeting and the Bach Santiago cycle, which has involved, he says, “a lot of work on ancient music, with instruments from the time , with very specific tunings and techniques”. |