On December 16, Gonzalo del Val, Head of the Jazz and Modern Music Department visited the Center for Jazz Studies of the Universidad Veracruzana de México in Xalapa. The purpose of the visit was to initiate a collaboration as part of the institutional agreements developed by the Liceu Conservatory Foundation in the frame of its program of Collaboration with Ibero-America.
The Faculty of Music of the Universidad Veracruzana has its origins in 1929, with the founding of the Xalapa Symphony Orchestra and is today one of the reference schools in Mexico. The Center for Jazz Studies, which today is part of the University, was born in 2008 as a space of possibilities for interaction and creativity and originated by a socio-cultural movement that involves various performers, researchers, teachers, students, educational authorities, businessmen, managers, music critics and the general public linked to Jazz in Mexico. The Institution’s objective is the education, dissemination and promotion of jazz in Veracruz.
During these years, the relationship between the Universidad Veracruzana and the Liceu Conservatory Foundation has been strengthened with the visit of professors from the Conservatory to Xalapa, which has allowed activities such as the master classes of Albert Julià, saxophone professor and head of the Wind Department of the Liceu Conservatory, in recent years. On the other hand, some alumni of the Universidad Veracruzana have continued their studies at the Conservatory, among them is Francisco Cruz, who studied at the Conservatory as a scholarship holder of the Carolina Foundation in 2020 and is currently a professor at this university.
This activity is part of the Liceu Conservatory Foundation’s international relations, and specifically in its Collaboration Program with Latin America, which began in 2001, and in which academic and artistic activities are developed in nine countries of the region (Colombia, Venezuela, Mexico, Cuba, Ecuador, Peru, Argentina, Chile and Brazil) through institutional collaboration agreements.