In this sense it’s addressed to children, adolescents and adults of every age and social status. For some it’s the only offer apart from school, university and work and provides a hobby, which at the same time is educating. For others it gives the possibility of a formation and amplification, offering the option of an artistic job in the future, thanks to the great scholarship program for persons with restricted funds.
The Teachers
The School has fourteen teachers employed on a regular basis. Guest tutors and renowned visiting musicians periodically work with the advanced students in master classes.
Organisation
The organisation differs considerably from the usual music schools in Northern America or Europe. There they can assist to classes various times and afterwards practice at home. Here they assist to the classes as well, but also come to practice and play together with others. As most of the families can’t afford a proper instrument for their children, the music school provides instruments.
International Reputation
The Music Academy of the Casa de los Tres Mundos has been working successfully for more than ten years now. Every year its educational program is reaching more and more children and young people of all social classes. The Music Academy has approximately 200 pupils. Particularly proud is the institution of the young David Salomón, who nowadays studies trumpet in Germany and receives international engagements.
In the year 2001 the Music School was awarded for its work by the UNESCO.
Vision
The vision for the next years is to concentrate on the formation of musicians with a professional profile and a solid academic preparation apart from the social-cultural offer.
They will be educated in the fields of composition, orchestral direction, the instrumental and vocal play of concert music. This way we want to build a new generation of professional artists who can cope as musicians or teachers of the different levels of general and artistic education.
History of the Music School
The beginning
The Music School was founded in 1992. In this time Dietmar Schönherr and Jeunesses Musicals Germany made an invitation for five musicians of the professional wind-orchestra in Münster, Germany to come to Nicaragua.
On their visit they didn’t only play the planned concert in the casa de los Tres Mundos, but as well in the poorer districts of Granada. When they noticed the interest of the people they started to establish superior classes and later as well the training of musicians and professors from different parts of the country, together with musicians of the “Orquesta Nacional de Nicaragua”.
1994 – 1999
From 1994 to 1999 the school develops under the direction of Ramón Rodriguez, director of the Camerata Bach in Nicaragua at this time, offering as a technical and instrumental preparation classes in woodwind and brass wind instruments.
2000 – 2004
In the year 2000 the school continues its plan of improvement under the direction of the Spanish hornist Santiago Martí. He implements as a new faculty the string instruments and starts with guitar lessons.
2004 – Today
From 2004 until today the school develops under the direction of the master Kevin Gutiérrez. He is tenor and is specialized in child education, composition and the direction of choir and orchestra. With him the school enters a process of changes: approximating the institution to a conservatory he implements a plan of perfection and complexity. Gutiérrez starts classes of chamber music, orchestration, band and new modalities, such as the implementation of lyric singing. Moreover he creates a music school with a great musical variety for all levels of age, which until now exists unique in Nicaragua, comparable to a conservatory.
Offer of instrumental classes
Types of instruments
- Piano
- Guitar
- Tuba
- Horn
- Trumpet
- Saxophone
- Clarinette
- Recorder
- German flute
- Violin
- Violoncello
- Viola
- Performance
- Solfeo
- Choir
Curriculum
Elementary Level
Education in theoretic and practical basics, which are important for the further musical education with the particular specializations
Basic level
The most important theoretic knowledge is thought and the pupils improve their play
Areas
- Classes of instruments
- Read and write music
- Introduction in the great works of music
- Vocal-Ensemble
- Instrumental-Ensemble
Intermediate level
The students are extensively qualified in their particular specialization and that way they get the possibility to work in the area of music in the future
Practical areas of classes
- Instrumental classes
- Piano as second instrument (in view of the fact that it isn’t main instrument)
- Vocal ensemble
- Instrumental ensemble
- Choir (possible as soloist )
- Chamber music
- Orchestra
- Quartettes and Quintettes
Theoretic areas of classes
- Read and write music
- Harmonics
- History of music
- Jazz chords
- to write short compostions and combinations of chords
General areas of classes
- History of art
- Review about the nicaraguan cultureüber die nicaraguanische Kultur
- Psychology (general and fitted to the age)
- Pedagogy
- Didactics
- Preparation for a profession in the area of music
Terms of admission
Elementary Level
- age between 7 and 12 years
- to be able to read and write
- sufficient motor and auditory abilities
- pupils younger than 10 years have to visit a course of flute before receiving classes in another instrument, because they have to learn the most important basic abilities
Basic Level
(one of the mentioned conditions is sufficient)
- having participated in the elementary level
- having participated in the class of orientation and having passed the qualifying examination for the particular classes of instrument
- pupils, who had classes in other music schools, which is acknowledged by the music school of the Casa de los Tres Mundos
- Test of sufficiency for external pupils
Intermediate Level
(one of the mentioned conditions is sufficient)
- having participated in the basic level and having completed successfully
- pupils, who had classes in other music schools, which is acknowledged by the music school of the Casa de los Tres Mundos
- Test of sufficiency for external pupils
Teaching hours
Diferida
Classes are on Saturdays or each evening for the Elementary and Basic Niveau.
Regular
Obligatory courses 2, 3 and up to 4 days per week in the afternoon in basic and intermediate level.
the frequency depends from the amount of years already studying the instrument.
Working opportunities for graduates
The graduates of our music school are professional musicians, who have such a good command of their instrument, that they can work as a teacher or as self-employment musician.
Instrumentalists
Our graduates, who are specialized in one certain instrument can choose the job of their choice from a great offer of jobs, as soloist or as member of an ensemble, for example in one of the following institutions in Nicaragua:
- chamber orchestra
- symphony orchestra
- general music schools
- music schools for education of choir- and orchestra leaders
Choir- and Orchestra-leader
the following tasks are fields of work for our graduates with a general instrumental education and specialization in choir-and orchestra leadership:
- instrumentalist as soloist or member of an ensemble in different groups and in the church
- music teacher in a public school or a conservatory
- instructor in a school for music teachers
- artists if his talent is acknowledged by the society
- musical advisor
Conditions for Graduation
Having participated in all the intended theoretic and practical courses and having passed the particular final examination successfully
- Performance (for the pupils of instruments)
- Presentation of the final thesis (for pupils in theory)
- Demanded amount of class-credits for the upper intermediate level
- Certificate of the upper intermediate level or final certificate
