Dr Villanueva delivered a master class analysing some of the possibilities that the contemporary Audiovisual Communication industry offers to musicians. Through an open discussion, music students learned about the various sectors available for them to specialise in within what is known as "applied music". During the session, real life case studies were examined across the range of the modern music industry's markets including the worlds of advertising, music video, fiction series, corporate communication, the cultural management sector and so on.
The II Ciclo de encuentros para músicos curiosos was based on four get-togethers aimed at the performers, composers, teachers and musicologists of the future. Three specialists from the fields of music as applied to the cinema and the mass media spoke about composition, performance, research and adapting to the changes of the digital age.
About Dr Isabel Villanueva
Isabel Villanueva Benito won first prize at the 2015 Awards for Research into Audiovisual Communication. She has held the position of Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Communication Sciences at UIC Barcelona for seven years, where she teaches the subjects of Music and Cinema, Soundtrack and Filmscoring. She is currently a Fulbright 2016 researcher into Music and New Technologies at the University of California, Los Angeles. Isabel graduated from the University of Navarre with degrees in Audiovisual Communication and in Advertising and Public Relations. She was awarded an official Master's Degree in Cultural Management by the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya (UIC Barcelona). Qualified at intermediate and superior levels in music, she specialised in Lyrical Song studying under Carmen Bustamante at the Higher Conservatory of Music of the Liceu in Barcelona. She also undertook postgraduate studies in the composition of cinema sound tracks with the composer José Nieto in London and Barcelona. Since her arrival in Barcelona in 2005, her extensive and multi-disciplinary training has allowed her to combine studying with music teaching and university lecturing (UIC Barcelona, London University, UNAV, etc.), composing music for film and publicity projects, performing as a solo soprano and supervising the music for works of fiction.
