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Virginia Vega Valdés (November 3rd, 1983), is a student at the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA. She is currently enrolled in her third semester. Her main instrument is the guitar, with which she explores the genres of jazz, south-american and mexican folkloric music.
In México, she studied the career of Music Bachelor in the University of Fine Arts in Chihuahua, Chih., (2003-2005), where she had the opportunity to participate in diverse projects that covered from alternative rock, country music, ska and finally jazz.
In the summer of 2006, she assisted to the International Jazz Seminar in Cholula, Puebla, where he had the chance of studying with Berklee professors for the first time, especially with Seminarist/Clinician/Berklee Professor and Bass Prodigy, Mr. Oscar Stagnaro, whom granted her a scholarship to assist the program on the following year. In her hometown, Torreón, Coah., she taught music at a local school, in which she directed a recital of traditional blues. Right now she is working with Berklee students in an ensemble which blends the folklore of Venezuela with the jazz idiom, called "Going South Project".
More coming soon !
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