Due to the pandemic, our music vacation course was abruptly canceled in March, and the Musicians Without Borders ( Musiker ohne Grenzen ) volunteers had to return to their country.
A few weeks later, in the midst of the crisis that the city was experiencing due to COVID-19, some volunteers from Germany proposed to give virtual classes of piano, singing, violin, guitar, bass, improvisation and trombone; friends who had been in Guasmo in 2011, 2018 and 2019 participated.
Although we couldn’t reach a large population we tried to include both old and new participants in these free classes. We have 2 instructors for singing, 2 for piano, 4 for violin, 2 for guitar, bass and improvisation and 1 who teaches trombone. Classes are individual and are given by video call on WhatsApp, Zoom or Skype
One of the objectives is that outstanding students such as the children Esthercita and Adrián Vargas do not lose the practice of the instrument and continue to improve their talent. Unfortunately not everyone has an instrument at home and we do not have many volunteers who have time available, which is somewhat limited by the time difference between Germany and Ecuador.
Classes continue until the end of this month, on the one hand because the volunteer instructors have their university exams in Germany and also to re-evaluate how to continue with these or to finally reopen the facilities.