The National Award for Representation and Audiovisual Arts of Chile 2005 was in a nursing home. I create a homonymous academy. He was also director of the National Theater between 1998 and 2000.
Fernando González, 2005 National Award for Representation and Audiovisual Arts, theater teacher of several generations, including Alfredo Castro and Andrés Pérez, passed away this Saturday.
“My teacher passed away,” said Alfredo Castro on his Instagram social network. González was admitted to a nursing home.
“I am saddened by the loss of a teacher of many generations, who taught us the rigor of training, the love for the trade. A very great shame,” Castro told The counter.
Castro was his student after entering the University of Chile in 1974, and he recalled that he also taught other prominent performers such as Andrés Perez, Marcial Tagle and Marcelo Alonso.
“With Fernando González, an era, a school, a sense of the theatrical trade come to an end… there will be those who say that now it is better, others worse… I believe that he really taught rigor, technique and, above all, trade… the true trade. With Fernando leaves a talented and extraordinary teacher of the theater… in one way or another, many of today’s great artists are aesthetic sons of his. It is an enormous, irremediable, loss”, indicated for his part the theater critic César Farah.
“I like to do theater all day, I like to train people,” González had said at the time after winning the National Award.
Trajectory
According to the website of the University of Chile, he studied acting at the Casa de Bello and graduated in 1959.
In 1969 he attended Stanislavskian Acting workshops, directed by Professor Agustín Siré, and in 1976 he graduated from the postgraduate course in Theater Directing taught at Casa de Bello.
In 1983 he joined as Professor of Acting, Theater History and Introduction to Theater Direction. He has also served as an evaluator for playwriting competitions, a selector for creative projects, and a guide teacher in memoirs and seminars.
In 1986 he created his own acting academy.
He founded and directed the Itinerant Theater School between 1978 and 1980. He was also director of the National Theater between 1998 and 2000.
He won the Municipal Arts Award, awarded by the Municipality of Santiago, in 2002. In 2005 he received the Medal of Cultural Merit “Professor Pedro de la Barra” and in 2009 he was named Professor Emeritus of the University of Chile.
2023-05-13 21:05:12
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