Experience:
Florencia started teaching music at a very young age, and she has been teaching for more than 15 years.
She started her teaching career teaching recorder and music initiation to very young children, later on, she taught saxophone, music theory, ear training and solfege lessons privately and in various music schools to students ranging in age from 6 to 60 .
She has also acted as a music educator in several High schools, with groups of up to 50 teenagers teaching music theory and music history.
Upon entering Berklee, she was hired as a tutor, teaching all harmony, ear training, solfege and arranging courses, while working in several music schools and conservatories around the Boston area.During these years, she continued teaching private students and started teaching advanced harmonic concepts to fellow musicians.
Currently, she is teaching Music Theory, Ear Training, Jazz Ensemble and Woodwinds in various New York City music schools and conservatoires.
Some of the classes offered privately are saxophone, clarinet, flute, recorder, harmony, ear training, composition and arranging.
She loves teaching. Her eclectic background – in which classical and popular music are integrated – as well as her professional performance experience, make her a very flexible teacher who can easily teach all levels of students and all styles.
Education:
Florencia studied classical saxophone performance in Uruguay and as a classical musician was selected in 2003 as first saxophone of the National Symphonic Orchestra. In 2004 she moved to Boston, where she graduated with honors from Berklee College of Music with a dual Bachelor Degree in Jazz Composition and Performance. After graduating from Berklee College of Music she pursued her Master’s Degree in Jazz Composition at New England Conservatory, from where she also graduated with honors.
Located:
Manhattan, NYC
Florencia, composer, performer (multi woodwind player, singer), and session musician, leads bands that range from a duo of guitar and saxophone to a 20-piece Big Band.
Her Big Band has been together since 2007; playing regularly in Boston until 2011, when it was selected one of the best 5 jazz bands in Boston right before moving to New York, where she established a new Big Band composed by the finest jazz musicians of the city.
Parallel to her large ensembles (Big Band and 11 Piece Band), she leads a Candombe Project, which includes horns, percussion, singing and a lot of beautiful tunes from Uruguay and Argentina. This project performs regularly in New York and has been part of a number of jazz and Latin music festivals.
Born and raised in Montevideo, Uruguay, her music career there encompassed a lot of different styles in a variety of groups (jazz, tango, bossa nova, rock, pop, funk, candombe, etc.).
She studied classical saxophone performance in Uruguay and as a classical musician was selected in 2003 as first saxophone of the National Symphonic Orchestra. In 2004 she moved to Boston, where she graduated with honors from Berklee College of Music with a dual Bachelor Degree in Jazz Composition and Performance. After graduating from Berklee College of Music she pursued her Master’s Degree in Jazz Composition at New England Conservatory, from where she also graduated with honors.
She is currently a member of the prestigious BMI Jazz Composer’s Workshop, and is also working as a music educator, teaching Music Theory, Ear Training, Jazz Ensemble and Woodwinds in various New York City music schools and conservatoires.
