{"id":371,"date":"2025-05-12T20:56:17","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T20:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/intempo.org\/blog\/?p=371"},"modified":"2025-07-18T20:58:56","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T20:58:56","slug":"intempostories-meet-anny-guartatanga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/intempo.org\/blog\/intempostories-meet-anny-guartatanga\/","title":{"rendered":"#INTEMPOStories:\u00a0Meet Anny Guartatanga"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Haz click aqu\u00ed para leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I was little, I always loved music, ballet, painting, and the arts. I liked that my mom often took me to concerts by the Guayaquil Symphony Orchestra. I started ballet when I was young, but when I turned 10, my mom wanted to enroll me in the Antonio Neumane Conservatory of Music. So I had to choose between ballet and music, because both required a lot of time. I chose music. I started studying piano at age 10. I went to the conservatory four days a week from 2pm to 6pm, and I did that until I graduated at 17. I really enjoyed it \u2014 I had friends and a community. We didn\u2019t just study an instrument; we also studied music theory, music history, solf\u00e8ge, and harmony. We also had to do recitals, pass exams, and reach a certain grade to move on to the next level \u2014 otherwise, we had to repeat the year. At 15, I transferred to the Sergei Rachmaninov Conservatory. Because my parents gave me the opportunity to go to a conservatory, I\u2019ve always felt it was my responsibility to make sure my children studied music too. My goal has always been to give them what I had \u2014 and even more. I hope music teaches them perseverance, because my journey was a long one, and I almost gave up on music at several points in my life. When I was close to graduating from the conservatory, I wanted to quit for good, and I remember my teacher telling me, \u2018You\u2019re so close, you just have to take the graduation exam,\u2019 and she kept pushing me until I graduated. I learned that even when you feel like giving up \u2014 just because the road has gotten hard \u2014 you have to keep going and find a way to reach your goal. I hope my children don\u2019t abandon their path \u2014 that they come to recognize their talents along the way, that I can support them, and that if they start something, they finish it. But above all, I hope they enjoy it and know they are capable not just of going to school, but of doing whatever they set their minds to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anny Guartatanga, INTEMPO Program Coordinator and mom to INTEMPO students Nate and Eduardo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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