Isaac Álamo Pérez (37), a musician specializing in piano and Spanish teacher, has obtained the "cum laude" recognition with his doctorate "Spectral Music and the Return to Sound". He confesses that the result is "one of the biggest projects of my life." A vital challenge that he achieved less than a month ago after 9 years of "intense work" and "an intellectually solitary stage" and two years of temporary leave.
Born in Arrecife, but living in Marseille for 5 years, he acknowledges that he "misses the island a lot" but "my work allows me to come often." He misses it so much that "I moved to the city because I needed the sea." Furthermore, always committed and with it in his memory, he is delighted to teach its roots, "it would be a dream to reflect it in a creative way."
A young man who dedicated himself to learning piano at the Conservatory until he was 18, but shortly after had to leave to study in Barcelona. With two degrees (Humanities and Musicology) that led to two master's degrees, one in Musicology and Piano and another in University Teacher Training. Although his "goal" has always been to achieve a doctorate.
An ambition of "1,000 and something pages" that he initially thought he "wasn't going to reach" due to his "self-demand" but of which he feels "very happy with the result", especially for the merit of combining it with his permanent position as "Spanish teacher."
"While I was on the metro and the bus to work, I would open the computer and start writing"
"While I was on the metro and the bus to work, I would open the computer and start writing," he confesses. "I have sacrificed myself" a lot, so much so that last year "neither in summer nor at Christmas did I go to Lanzarote." But "the desire to improve myself and try to push the limits further back" has overcome everything.
Until now, everything has been a race against time for him, since "sleeping and eating little" has led him to "lose kilos."
"I would like to return to music, buy a piano and set up a studio at home"
In the last 10 years in France, a country he went to "on an adventure" to "learn French" and with very little money saved for "6 months" and that has seen almost all his dreams come true.
He still has more to make a reality. He would love to "teach music at the University or at the higher Conservatory and do research", since his current job does not quite fascinate him: "I have a great time with my kids, but it doesn't fulfill me." He would also like to "return to music, buy a piano and set up a studio at home" and dedicate himself to "a video-dance project with my partner."
