When I was a child, I started learning
Música.En. My house has always told me “whatever you want to do, but do it well.” I chose that at age 5 I wanted to study music and conjugated it to other after-school activities. My first steps at Galdakao Music School, for me, spent time. I would never have imagined that it would be my profession.

This is not the case, but there are those who abandon musical studies. Why do you think it happens? The work
before the understanding of music is very long, it takes time to internalize the concepts. Until you are able to express yourself through music, you may need years and years. It is normal that many children do not achieve this motivation. Pedagogy should be adapted, made more practical, so as to be able to explore the instruments from childhood.

However, is it never too late to learn to play an instrument?It is never too
late to study, I recommend it to everyone. Without music life lacks substance; it helps us remember concrete moments, we relate it to feelings and places… As the writer Fran Lebowitz says, it is a drug that does not harm.

Beethoven, Mozart, Bach or Wagner are the composers who come to mind when talking about classical music. Where are the women?
When we think about Western classical music composers and directors, 100 percent of them are white European men. But there are books and documents that collect stories from unique women, like Nadia Boulanger and Clara Schumanni. If I had to recommend a book, I would recommend Feminism and music (Feminism and music) by Pilar Ramos.

What reception does classical music have in society?
Classical music is highly valued in Basque society. There is nothing else to do with the quality of symphony orchestras. We are very lucky compared to the level of the state. The problem is that music needs a long process of interiorization and that in this sense it is very easy to give in, especially among young people. We should give a second chance to clá music sica.Con the objective of

bringing citizenship closer to classical music, several groups have recorded versions with the Euskadi Symphony Orchestra. Are you in favour of these crossings?
Totally. The mix between the groups that are heard today and the symphony orchestras are needed for this reason. Furthermore, if the molding work is well done, it does not have to change the quality. Fernando Velázquez’s work for the Orchestra of the Basque Country is excellent, for example.

Are
you a woman, a young man… have you had any difficulty walking your way?
Sometimes I've found it hard to be a woman, yes. We have few women in the world of managers, but, well, the community is strong and I've found pretty people on the way.

What is the cause of the shortage of women in this sector?In the symphony
orchestras and also in their direction, as in many other trades, women were forbidden to participate. A violent fact: At the concert of the new year in Vienna, women were not able to participate in the orchestra until 1997! And it has not yet been any woman who led this concert… Is

music a precarious subject? Is it difficult to get a job? In this
sector there is no possibility of standing still, you have to make daily contacts, compare creative processes, share testing techniques to learn with others… If you move and do not abandon the desire to improve, you will find your way. Despite the fact that security measures have now made the situation difficult.
Is it incompatible to be a music director with listening to the reggaeton or the trapa?
I hear everything, I think every moment has its music. I do not particularly like the picture, but perhaps in a few years we will see it from a different perspective; after all, music changes with society and is also a reflection of that society. It is true that disdaining music with an “easy” creative process is a common practice. But anybody can't do it, there's limp. I imagine where they've come together to create a song, what they've talked about, what they've been based on -- I try to analyze it from that point of view.

In music, as in life, do studies not stop?
That's right, and as in life, the more you know, the less you know. I am referring not only to music, but also to the history and fundamentals behind that music. Classical music hides a lot of stories behind notes.