Elisa Vega, orchestra director and niece of Carolina Herrera: "When I started directing, my aunt advised me to maintain my femininity"

When I tell Vegas that in addition to Classic I have seen her in some video directing Sneakers, he laughs again and to her subject: “We cannot ignore that we are in the 21st century and that I work on a project in which we play Beethoven andTomorrow we act with a DJ.I feel a world of world, not only academic, and therefore seen from Venezuelan designers (as it has done for this production) but I also wear shoes.I think it is part of the work of the new orchestra director ”.

That task also has to do with breaking the dichotomy between high and low culture, because it is convinced that the only criterion that must separate a music from another is quality: "or it is good or bad, the genre does not matter",A professional affirms that the clarinet began listening to the King of Swing, Bennny Goodman."I told my jazz big bands that academic and popular music can be made, and that's why my orchestra also works with the Venezuelan ska band public disorder".

Elisa Vega, directora de orquesta y sobrina de Carolina Herrera: “Cuando empecé a dirigir, mi tía me aconsejó que mantuviera mi feminidad”

It is one of the ideas he defends as a young leader of the World Economic Forum, where he was chosen to participate in the group dedicated to culture."There we consider things like the way to take the museum to the street, make the academic concert more friendly or use the great orchestra for different musical genres, without seeming a sin or betrayal," he says convinced that the pandemic has madethose most relevant debates.“It is our task to attract people and break the idea that academic music requires a public formed.Music can play sensibilities in a very deep way.That is why we have to work so that the viewer, especially the youngest, feels welcome ”.