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well there’s something we haven’t fully

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explored yet and that is

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and i’m sure our patrons haven’t missed

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it that we have not

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won valdepena but two on this program

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and i would just love to explore that

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topic just a little bit alejandra maybe

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you can share with us

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you know what it’s like to be a young

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professional musician this time getting

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your start what is it like working with

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your father on the stage

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joaquin this must be so special as i’m

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sure it is for our patrons right now to

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see the two of you performing

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together i mean many of our patrons have

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been with us over 30 years and this

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is this is a very special thing that

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happened today

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i mean yeah it’s a very very special

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experience for me um

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i grew up going to tso concerts and

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amici concerts my whole life

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so all the musicians here are people

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that i’ve looked up to

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for the past 25 years um i never really

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thought

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this kind of experience would ever

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happen to me and it was always a dream

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for me to be able to play

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with people that play at the highest

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level like this so

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it’s been just really special experience

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um

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in the past summers i’ve played with my

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dad in like orchestra at basketball

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music festival

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and just growing up since i was 12 year

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old 12 years old i’ve been doing that

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but it’s not as intimate as playing

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cheering music so this is actually our

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first chambris experience together

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um especially in a professional setting

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in performance

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so it just feels a lot like

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all the lessons that he drove me to all

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the instrument adjustments

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culminated to this one moment you know

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so

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um i’m really happy to be able to have

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an experience like this especially when

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there aren’t many performances going on

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and

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to produce something concrete like this

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there’s there’s a little feature here

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right i have lucky and you got another

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sounding piece yellow

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that’s right i have two songs the other

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one please uh he’s associate principal

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in the calgary philharmonic on channels

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so

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we sent him home mid-september to go

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back to work so he

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was with us for a while so we were all

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we were all

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living together during the pandemic

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which was most interesting

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how does that work four of you in one

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house did you have to do anything

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special to

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in order to all of you practice at the

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same time

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how did that work we had to sort of um

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a very quickly realized that we have to

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prioritize who practices when right so

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they get up late so that was my

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opportunity to do these two things in

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the morning

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but the most amazing thing with

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alejandro i have to say is that

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his work ethic is has been amazing we

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were really impressed in that uh

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because doing this kind of thing for

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myself i have to tell you

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i just didn’t want to do anything it was

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so hard but he was just

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kept going and the viola discovered him

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recently so

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it’s been really good to hear that so i

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mean i i always said i was gonna do it

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and i always kept putting it off because

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i would just give myself excuses like i

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don’t have enough time

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or there’s an audition coming up or some

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performance coming up but

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now there’s there’s no excuse to do it

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yep we’re all doing new jobs

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now

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