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Musician and folklorist receives Mauro Fernández prize |
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The teacher and musician Fernando Rodríguez Zumbado was awarded the Mauro Fernández 2007 Prize, due to his broad and prosper career in the study, interpretation, and composition of folklore music and traditional culture and, above all, for the promotion of Costa Rican music and values among students.
“Mr. Rodríguez represents one of the most outstanding characters in the education field that we wanted to award during this government administration. We want to emphasize the need of educating Costa Ricans of future generations in an integrated way, not only limited to mathematics, science, and social studies, but extended to art, music, ethics and values,” pointed out the Minister of Education, Leonardo Garnier.
Rodríguez is native of the province of Heredia and has a Bachelor Degree in Music with emphasis in Community Promotion, granted by Universidad Nacional (UNA), in addition to a Bachelor Degree in Education with emphasis in Music and a Degree in Education with emphasis in Music Education.
He has worked as a music teacher in different educational institutions of the country, both public and private, including universities.
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