Biography

I’m from Valdivia, a small city in southern Chile, and since I can remember I have been interested in history and music. For this reason, studying musicology has been a real gift in my life. I have been quite involved in conservation and heritage in Chile, restoring historic instruments and also founding and developing archives and music collections. I have written various books and papers on the way identity and music have been relevant for the development of different communities in my country. For my PhD in Cambridge I hope to write on the changes in cultural life from colonial to republican times in South America, with a special interest in the Viceroyalty of Peru and how European-style music was rethought at this time in such a different place from where it was created. Much of this music has never been heard before, being buried for centuries, so it is always very exciting to find and rediscover old scores for the first time, studying them and the musicians behind the notes.