OUR MISSION

With our commitment we will get fundamentally supports the dissemination of culture, by deliberately creating the musical development of training facilities for all people who wish to participate as an artist and / or agents of the planned artistic events. This commitment is based on our key objectives:

DIGNIFIED PEOPLE AND THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE PARTICIPATION IN THE INTELLECTUAL AND CULTURAL GROWTH OF THE CITIZENS OF OUR CITY

We thus create an educational community through a social vision in which our members are the creators of this growth. They are so by themselves - according to the requirements of their immediate surroundings - cultural and provide learning opportunities, with which they interact with their immediate environment and transform it so.

OUR SCHOOL OF MUSIC

Our school is intended to help students of all ages to a solid education in the musical or academic field and prepare for the cultural needs of the city. To this end, the training includes:

-Grammar
-Group practice
-Study of a main instrument

The curriculum is divided into four cycles, which are by achievements and qualifications in accordance with the academic programs and the institution must be developed and approved.

These cycles are:

- Introduction to Music Education
-Preliminary lessons
-Basic Education
- Transitional Education

The tools we provide are: singing, piano, guitar, tiple, mandolin, violin, viola, cello, bass, flute, oboe, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, trombone, horn, Afro-Latin percussion.

The ensembles that we provide are: Children's Workshop Youth Workshop Zarzuela Workshop, African percussion workshop, Latin Guitar Ensemble and chamber music ensembles.



FREE COURSES

There are also offered courses for those who are looking to extend their own musical knowledge and skills.

These courses include:

- Main instrument and / or advanced course (only for students with advanced knowledge of grammar and the practice of making music together)
- Harmony (choral, instrumental)
-Direct
- Review of Music and Music History
- Zarzuela-Workshop
- Introduction to Music for Adults
- Early musical stimulation
- Music Education

OUR EDUCATIONAL CRITERIA

We identify with today's education, providing training, viewed in terms of processes at all levels.

Our students, teachers, leaders and all members of our educational community are in an endless process of collective growth, in which the music is our guide, our motive, our environment and our goal.

For this reason, each activity aroused our educational institution of an educational character, whether it is for the community or for their particular cultural sphere of influence, or whether as a result of our training.

Thus all our concerts have also didactic character and our festivals, meetings, workshops, lectures, talks, etc., always try to create more concerns and desires for participation and proposition of new spaces for learning and development.

INSTITUTION OF CULTURAL EVENTS AND SHOWS

The Compañia Filarmonica de los Andes was created to allow our members to participate in the cultural life of the city and to promote the knowledge and skills in their training.

Currently serve this purpose, the offices of Rafael Pombo Foundation - where we already gave several concerts - the Cadiz Theater, which was one of our major cultural venues and through the cultural coordination we could provide the FESTIVAL ESTUDIANTIL BOGOTA MUSICAL "for a multiethnic and multicultural Development, the association "Lotos eventos", the "Festival de Artes de Teusaquillo, culture management, organized by the representatives of the village of Barrios Unidos. In addition, the cultural activities are in our own institution.

Musical ensembles, with whom we have worked:

1.The CFA Children´s Choir: Founded and led by the teacher Catherine Sanchez. With her students she interprets our Colombian music in a unique style, so that their presentations and concerts make easy fun and provide a playful space for people of all ages.

2.The CFA Guitar Ensemble: Under the direction of teacher Oliver Marin, following the institutional guidelines he has developed through its characteristic staging a universal, but also latin-american repertoire for audiences of all ages. He is also accompanied by his students.

3.The CFA chamber ensemble: Founded and led by the teacher Mario Diaz Mendoza. He contributes much to the dissemination of the chamber. His presentations are interesting for that audience. They combine the possibility of new knowledge about this kind of music to acquire the ability to gain an overview of the different times of general music history.

4.The CFA team of teachers: All our teachers are qualified in their musical training and linked to the cultural events and cultural promotion. They play their instruments in their own genres and help to promote the cultural development of Bogota.

OUR METHOD

Given that method is the way to come to an end, after many years of experience in educational work, we designed a series of instructional strategies that have enabled us to achieve our goals. These strategies include musical interaction with members of the educational community, cultural diffusion within and outside the institution, consideration of various matters involving all areas such as the main instrument, grammar, education in various vocals and instrumental, the musical appreciation and history of music, among others, and attending extracurricular activities inside and outside of school.

In addition, our teachers and leaders are held in permanent growth processes both musical and cultural by offering their talents in the educational community.

OUR CULTURAL ORIENTATION

For us, music besides being one of the most significant manifestation of the human condition is a lifestyle that involves an ethical approach that is displayed across multiple aesthetic expression in the development of the personality of each of the members of our educational community.

Therefore we deeply respect the cultural proposals that are developing the construction of the learning processes of the members of our educational community and our main purpose is to make them a contribution in the construction of a multiethnic and multicultural Bogotá.

In this way we involve our students in the cultural life of the city, because we believe that the manifest culture itself is a path to better living together for the benefit of all.