La formación del director de coro desde una perspectiva decolonial

The choral conducting career is part of the academic proposal of different universities in Latin America. In these training spaces, the study plans tend to emphasize the mastery and communication of gestures, the acquisition of rehearsal techniques, the knowledge about the correct idiomatic diction, the study of vocal technique and the acquisition of listening skills. However, these capacities often conflict with the needs and demands that the professional activity demands of choir conductors, especially when the realities of the choral groups in which the conductors perform are far from the characteristics of professional vocal groups. In this work we propose to know some of the dimensions of the professional reality that choir conductors encounter when practicing the profession. At the same time we propose to make a critical analysis of the current formation of the choir conductor from a decolonial perspective, in order to make visible the assumptions that underlie their formation and promote the need to transform that reality.