Caterina Schembri traces the long arc from her earliest training in Bogotá to the work she’s doing now. She talks about the intensity of her upbringing—full days in school followed by nights at the conservatory—and how her first living-composer mentor made the role feel accessible rather than distant. She then lays out the two poles of her formal education: a rigorous, highly theoretical composition program shaped by aesthetic dogma, followed by a film-scoring master’s that opened up new tools, new people, and a wider sense of sonic possibility. Moving between those extremes eventually pushed her toward a middle ground of her own making: a practice shaped neither by academic prescriptions nor by market pressures, but by the space she’s carved out for her own voice.
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