María Fernanda Olivares Fosado
Guitarist, teacher and coordinator of cultural programs. Graduated with a degree in Instrumentalist Music (Guitar) where she completed her professional studies at the Faculty of Music of the UNAM, under the tutelage of José Luis Segura and Pablo Garibay. She has also taken master classes with renowned guitarists such as Javier Somoza, Leo Brouwer and Eliot Fisk.
In 2013, she completed the Diploma of Guitar Improvement taught by Maestro Antonio Rodríguez, at the School of Arts of the BUAP, in Puebla. She studied Art History at the Sophia Foundation in the 2013-2014 school year, and at the Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana, in 2019. Fernanda is certified by the Suzuki Association of the Americas and the Mexican Association of the Suzuki Method for having successfully completed courses Introduction to the Philosophy of the Suzuki Method and Guitar Book 1 of the Suzuki Method, in 2020 and 2021, respectively. Both were taught by Joaquin Olivares, first teacher trainer of the Suzuki Method in Mexico.
In 2018, Fernanda was awarded the Gabriel Ruiz Scholarship for the research and dissemination of bolero in Mexico. She also actively participated in 2022, in the 1st Diploma of Guitar Improvement taught in Paracho, Michoacán, by maestro Mauro Zanatta.
She has given recitals at various events and venues in Mexico throughout her career as a concert performer and with the intention of democratizing academic music. This includes book fairs, fundraising for foundations (Kakolum AC), child protection centers, local radio and television programs, penitentiary and psychosocial rehabilitation centers for women, regional festivals (Festival de la Huasteca, 2012), etc. As well as in important and beautiful venues including: Museo Ex Teresa Arte Actual, Museo José Luis Cuevas, Museo Nacional de Arte (MUNAL), Museo de San Carlos, Sala Julián Carrillo de Radio UNAM, Sala Manuel M. Ponce del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Conservatorio Nacional de Música, Biblioteca de México, Biblioteca Vasconcelos, Senado de la República, and Auditorio del Centro para la Investigación y Desarrollo de la Guitarra (CIDEG).
Fernanda has 7 years of experience in music teaching and has collaborated with cultural centers and private academies such as Tsonalli and the Liceo de Paracho Johrengua as well as with different private elementary and high schools, among them 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, as well as in the administration of governmental social programs. Since 2021, she has worked in the Youth Building the Future Program Unit at the Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare. And since 2023, she is part of Kithara Project Mexico City, while teaching music theory and appreciation, and as the coordinator for the program.