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Mar22
‘Tis The Season To Strum VIII
Tag Archives: Guitar lessons bonifacio global city
May2
We are Online!
Guitar and music lessons are now online! Stay productive and continue to be enriched while staying safe at home during the Enhanced Community Quarantine.
Nov10
Sounds Of Freedom V
Sounds of Freedom 2015 was launched at the Salvatorre Lounge in Makati. Students of Teacher Jonathan performed on stage to the delight of friends and parents. The lounge has some of the most sought-after guitars considered collector’s items displayed on the walls. State-of-the-art equipment and band gear were on the stage. It was quite an experience for all of us. Aside from providing a platform for students to experience the full range of learning music through public performance, we thought that it would be good for students to experience what it is like to play using professional music equipment. Cheers to twelve years of awesome guitar education!
Aug30
Sounds of Freedom IV 2014
Last June 2014, our young guitar heroes performed Classical, Rock, Jazz, and other Contemporary tunes. Sounds of Freedom is a branded music event by Animaguitara, yearly held to bring students from the learning studio to the stage and in front of a community of peers, parents, and friends. It is an environment of positive affirmation and encouragement where musicians can flourish without fear.
Jul31
With Strings Attached
Music leads the path to wellness. The Guitar Club class of Teacher Jonathan and some singers from the Chorale shared their talents to the delight of the audience passing by the Wellness Hub of SM Center Pasig. “With Strings Attached” delivers Animaguitara’s promise to provide a regular platform for young musicians to apply what they learn in the studio and experience performing in real-world contexts.
Last August, we selected students from one of the schools we serve, the St. Paul College Pasig. The school has a GIFT Program that nurtures the talents of young people, so that they may be complete human beings as they journey in life. Animaguitara indeed agrees with this vision. Thanks to our friend Ms. Bel Bartolome, SM hosted the first edition of Animaguitara’s With Strings Attached with the full support of St. Paul College Pasig GIFT teachers, students, families, and friends. The students enjoyed performing for people from all walks of life.
Nov24
Keys and Strings 2013
This season, we decided to come up with a simple celebration of young talent. In light of recent tragedies in Tacloban, Leyte, we decided to forego the usual high-impact productions that Animaguitara is known for. This day marks a time of recovery, rebuilding, and prayer. Animaguitara features the guitar students of Jonathan Gonzales and the piano students of Jane Banta with Keys and Strings 2013.
The genesis of Keys and Strings began in 2008 at the Podium. This year marks a return as we generate more challenging platforms for our young guitar heroes.
May23
Summer Recital@Bonifacio Global City
The 2013 edition of Sounds of Freedom marks Animaguitara’s tenth year in the music industry. We say cheers to ten years of pedagogically sound enrichment programs and productive recreation. We affirm our commitment to the public trust we have been nurturing for a decade. While we have always insisted on quality guitar programs, we have since expanded to other music endeavors — for we choose to remain responsive to the wants and needs of people from all walks of life. We uphold the highest professional standards in music instruction, yet we seek relevance in a contemporary world. We know your pulse.
Last June 2, 2013, we celebrated Sounds of Freedom with the support of JB Music Philippines.
Design by Kat Espiritu. Identity by US-based artist Lene Dee Dragon.
Sounds of Freedom is part of two major shows annually produced by Animaguitara. These shows feature the students, allied artists, and performer-educator Jonathan Gonzales. It is only one of the several platforms provided by Animaguitara, to allow our students to interact not only with their peers but with professional musicians as well. Incidentally, it is also our way of celebrating Independence Month as we extend our gratitude to parents, students, fellow artists, JB Music Philippines, and the public — for supporting independent artists. We brought Sounds of Freedom III to Bonifacio Global City and it was indeed a remarkable experience for all of us.
Cheers to ten years of beautiful music!
We would love to get to know you and share our passion for music.
Mar14
Music Recital in Makati 2012
Produced with the support of JB Music Philippines
Last December 2012, we celebrated another milestone with the third edition of T’is the Season to Strum. This Animaguitara branded event comes as the second of two major shows that we produce every year. Students are taking on bigger challenges playing more complex pieces while some are learning to play tight with professional musicians. For the first time, we featured St. Scholastica’s College School of Music percussion alumnus Allan on drums (and we loved it). On bass guitar, we featured Albert Perez. Albert was mentored by Teacher Jonathan.
Of course, JB Music Philippines once again showcased their top of the line music instruments and gear — the ones Teacher Jonathan Gonzales and Animaguitara students patronize and love so much. Cheers to JB for bringing in their superb music crew and awesome sound!
Photos by our allied artists are on our Facebook page. Visit us for regular updates on the Animaguitara experience. http://www.facebook.com/animaguitara
Apr15
Keys and Strings at Podium, Ortigas
The piano students of Teacher Jane Banta and students of Teacher Jonathan Gonzales in several guitar and band programs performed in the summer of 2008 at the Podium in Ortigas.
Mar30
Animaguitara or a Commercial Music School?
Dear Reader,
Commercial music studios try to integrate all sorts of creative practice without being able to identify their core competencies. They offer anything and everything.
We are not a commercial music studio.
We are a solidarity of allied artists. We at Animaguitara started in 2003 by providing guitar lessons for individual students, customized according to the uniqueness of the human person, and delivered at the comfort of each home. We still continue that to this very day although we have also grown so much more beyond this. However, our energies have always been concentrated on holistic enrichment through music rather than commercial expansion. Our arts and culture initiatives have always been nomadic by choice as a form of assertion. We have been there — from fringes to extended spaces. From art institutions to alternative spaces.
Our decision not to go mainstream was a deliberate one, motivated by primarily three reasons. First of all, if expansion is prioritized over quality, the learner will neither get real value nor the benefits of having the best materials and resources. Second, a huge percentage of the fees paid by the learner (or parents) WILL NOT go to the instructor but to the huge overhead costs needed to maintain the expansion of profit-driven music schools. As a result, instructors are not inspired to teach, the number of starving artists in the country only keep increasing, and the learner will just become part of the bottom line. Because of the pressure to deliver and seek profit gains, tutors are not quality educators but posers who can be shortchanged. Last but not the least, we believe in genuine learning through the solid programs we provide to individuals and communities.
We insist that talent is important, yet talent alone does not suffice. It must be cultivated and developed to reach its full potential. The student must learn to listen to music, engage in music as a creative discipline, and build one’s confidence through performance. For us, music is a creative leisure — an end in itself that one engages in. On the other hand, we make sure that learning is a fun experience for all ages.
Through Animaguitara’s cultural programming arm, we provide platforms to immerse young people in music and promote arts and culture exchanges that strengthen community solidarity. The communities we serve range from those who simply wish to immerse in the beautiful to those who wish to experience the full spectrum of learning, performing, and exchanging ideas as a form of conversing with and enriching each other.
At Animaguitara, we believe in nurturing creativity and helping people from all walks of life realize their potential as complete human beings who can inspire others in society. Lastly, we believe in making people happy.
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