Maria Fernanda Fosado Olivares

Guitarist, teacher and coordinator of musical and cultural programs. She studied

Music-Interpretation (Guitar) at the Faculty of Music of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, under the guidance of teachers José Luis Segura and Pablo Garibay. Additionally she has taken master classes with renowned guitarists such as Javier Somoza, Leo Brouwer and Eliot Fisk.

She took courses and studies in Art and Music History at the Sophia Foundation, at the Sor Juana Cloister University and at the Hellenic Cultural Institute. She is an active member of the Suzuki Association of the Americas and the Mexican Association of the Suzuki Method, and is certified for having successfully completed the courses: Introduction to the Philosophy of the Suzuki Method, Guitar Book 1 and Guitar Book 2, taught by Joaquin Olivares, first teacher trainer of this methodology in Mexico. In 2018, she was awarded the Gabriel Ruiz Scholarship for research and dissemination of bolero in Mexico. She actively participated in 2013 in the Guitar Improvement Diploma, taught by maestro Antonio Rodríguez, at the School of Arts of the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla. And in 2022, in the 1st Guitar Improvement Diploma taught in Paracho, Michoacán, by maestro Mauro Zanatta.

Throughout her career as a performer, and with the intention of democratizing academic music, she has offered recitals at various events and places in Mexico; fundraising campaign (Kakolum AC), penitentiary and psychosocial rehabilitation centers for women, regional festivals (Festival de la Huasteca, 2012), child protection centers, local radio and television programs, and book fairs. As well as important and beautiful venues, including: the National Museum of Art, the San Carlos Museum, the Julián Carrillo Hall of Radio UNAM, the Manuel M. Ponce Hall of the Palacio de Bellas Artes, the National Conservatory of Music, the Biblioteca México, the Biblioteca Vasconcelos, the Senate of the Republic, and the Auditorium of the Guitar Research and Development Center (CIDEG).

Fernanda has 7 years of experience in music teaching. She has collaborated with cultural centers and private academies such as Tsonalli and the Liceo de Paracho Johrengua. And with different private elementary and secondary schools, including The Buchanan School, implementing after-school music programs. Committed to children and youth, and to the construction of cultural spaces in Mexico, she has also worked in the field of coordination and management of musical projects and in the administration of government social programs. She worked from 2021 to 2024 in the Youth Building the Future Program Unit at the Ministry of Labor and Social Security. And since 2023, she is part of Kithara Project as music theory and appreciation teacher and coordinator of the Mexico City Program.