Guanajuato, Gto., April 29, 2019.- To formalize links that began in the field of arts, but could be extended to other disciplines, the Guanajuato Campus of the University of Guanajuato (UG) and the University of Concepción, Chile, signed a cultural collaboration agreement.

On behalf of the University of Guanajuato, Dr. Teresita de Jesús Rendon Huerta Barrera, rector of the Guanajuato Campus, and by the University of Concepción, Chile, Carlos Saavedra Rubilar, Rector of this house of studies, signed.

In her message, Dr. Rendon Huerta celebrated this formalization of ties between the two educational institutions, and for the honor of sharing many projects of academic and cultural order.

"If something makes the University of Guanajuato proud, it is the quality of professors and students and the seriousness with which they assume the commitments," said the rector of the Guanajuato Campus, who reiterated the great joy for this agreement to be extended to the arts, sciences and other disciplines of knowledge, and made vows because the relationship is highly productive and enduring.

In his opportunity, Dr. Carlos Saavedra Rubilar also expressed his satisfaction with the signing of this broad collaboration agreement that was born with the collaboration and relationship that was generated between the musicians and the performing arts and visual arts, but that henceforth will be of broad form with UG in general terms.

The common activities, he said, begin with the visit of four musicians of the Symphonic Orchestra of the University of Concepción, and the planning has begun that allows to maintain a permanent exchange, especially in aspects of musical formation.

Also, the exchange of professors and the preparation for the visit in the month of November of this year, of his orchestra that will develop a tour in Guanajuato, San Miguel de Allende, León and Mexico City.

Dr. Saavedra Rubilar revealed that on May 14th the University of Concepción will be 100 years old and a group of music students from La UG is going to participate in this anniversary, a milestone and a symbolic event for both institutions.

Present at the protocol act, Dr. Francisco Javier González Compean, Director of the Division of Architecture, Art and Design (DAAD), highlighted the fortune of sharing this signature of agreement that was given in a very natural way and was born as a result of friendships that now Consolidated in an institutional way, "it's an occasion of jubilation," he said.

It should be mentioned that, in July 2017, the Chilean government, through the expression Bio-Bio program, invited Víctor Hugo Ramos Fonseca, founding director of the San Miguel de Allende Youth Symphony Orchestra and student and teacher of the Department of Music and Performing Arts at the University of Guanajuato; as a conductor in the aforementioned meeting.

Being in the city of Concepción, Chile where Miguel Galdames made possible for a delegation of Chilean musicians to attend the International Meeting of Youth Orchestras in San Miguel de Allende in November of the same year; while in July 2018 it was time to participate in a delegation of Mexico with a selection of students in the edition of that year of Bio Bio expression.

On that date, Luis Flores Villagómez was able to participate in the meeting, giving a master trumpet class and knowing the Chilean authorities, to make the first approach with the vision of a possible cultural collaboration agreement.

In September of last year, Víctor Hugo Ramos Fonseca met with the manager of the Cultural Corporation of the University of Concepción and served as spokesman for Flores Villagómez to formalize the work for the agreement between the University of Concepción and our University.

By November 2018, Miguel Galdames Paves arrived in Guanajuato to offer a master trumpet class and follow-up, with Dr. Francisco Javier González Compean, the details of the convention that this day was formalized.

They testified to the signing of the agreement, Mario Cabrera Delgado, director of the University of Concepción Orchestra; Julio Gaete Montesinos, Director of communication at the University of Concepción and Luis Flores Villagómez, Director of the Department of Music and Performing arts, as well as students and teachers from both educational institutions.