A community that motivates us. Maria Eugenia Arias
María Eugenia Arias, a woman full of qualities and love for art, is recognized in our university community not only for serving as Director of the Polyphonic Choir, but for her passion for teaching and excellence within the artistic and academic field.
Inspired by her mother, who was also a music lover and had performed as a soloist at the Herlinda Toral school, she began her artistic training at the age of 11 at the José María Rodríguez Conservatory. During the first years at this institute he focused on dance, but it was music that awakened his true passion and the one that led him to graduate with a Bachelor of Arts degree, piano mention.
In 2005 she obtained her third level degree as a Bachelor of Education Sciences, mention in Musicology, from the University of Azuay. Later, in 2018 he obtained his Master's degree in Musicology from the University of Cuenca.
María Eugenia's preparation and work is not limited to practice and staging, she has also ventured into the academic and research world.
On October 27, 28 and 29, he represented Ecuador as a speaker with his article "Process of training children in the choral field" at the I International Congress on Arts and Humanities Pedagogies held by UNAE and the University of the Arts. In the same way, this week she will be participating in her capacity as Director of the José María Rodríguez Conservatory Choir and Vice President ADYCOE (Cuenca, Ecuador) in the International Congress of Choral Direction ADYCOE (Quito, Ecuador).
In her role as Director of the Polyphonic Choir of the University of Azuay, she tells us that, despite a process for selecting voices to be part of the choir, most students have not had a previous academic vocal study, so That such selection is based mainly on going hand in hand with rhythm and tuning, once within the Polyphonic Choir an academic training is provided where vocal talent is polished.
She is emphatic when mentioning that "People are born with talent which must be cultivated and polished in order to master it and perform it in a better way, the artist must continue to train, exploit himself to the maximum, because being much more sensitive people, they perform art and they feel it differently. "
Finally, she tells us that balancing academic, artistic and personal life has not been an easy task, but that it has been possible, especially thanks to the support of her husband Mesías Abril, an architect by profession, with whom she has been married for more than 30 years.
