Bringing her from Venezuela for the first edition of the La Maestra competition was a challenge.
“Given the health situation, there is no longer a link between Caracas and Paris.
So we had to bring her in by a humanitarian convoy.
She arrived the night before the qualifiers and passed her jetlag events, ”
explains Emmanuel Hondré, director of the concerts department of the Philharmonie de Paris, which co-organized the competition with the Paris Mozart Orchestra (PMO).
For a week, the Venezuelan candidate Gladysmarli Vadel has once again been at the heart of the concerns of the room, which is putting all its energy to ensure that she remains in France.
“His technique did not allow him to be among the three finalists.
But her charisma, her generosity and her communicative energy marked so much that we thought we could not let her go back to Venezuela, where she sells vegetables in the street to pay for her law courses in the evening, while juggling music, ”
he says.
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