Javier Fernández Ortiz
Javier Fernández Ortiz was born in Oviedo on May 9, 1971. He lives in Madrid, Spain.
He was introduced to the Willems® methodology by Jacques Chapuis in Madrid in 1994. After obtaining his Willems® Pedagogical Diploma in Music Education in 1998, he continued his training and collaboration with J. Chapuis, which signified the great change in his life with regard to the concept of music education and the human being in general as proposed by Mr. Willems. He obtained the Diplôme Didactique de formateur d’enseignants in 2006, since when he has pursued the ideal of educating people globally in Music, based on Consciousness, Joy and good Practice. He has participated and collaborated in several international congresses and Willems® training centers in Spain and France, working as a team with Willems® teacher trainers.
He trained as a Waldorf teacher at Escuela Libre Micael in Madrid, where he is currently director. Waldorf pedagogy is the educational philosophy/practice promoted by Rudolf Steiner, based on the expanded phenomenology of the Human Being and known by Edgar Willems, in which he has continued to work since 1995 and where he has been a Music and other teacher, and a middle and high school tutor since 2007 and has given courses in several Waldorf teacher training courses. Piano teacher in 1998, graduated in geography and history in 1995, specializing in art history.
Teacher of history, geography, art history, musical forms, music history, practical harmony, musical language and piano since 1995. Music teacher and piano accompanist for eurythmy training courses in Madrid. Vice-president of the Fundación Círculo de Arte Social, which puts Rudolf Steiner’s work into practice in accordance with the work of Jaime Padró. Professor at the University of Castilla la Mancha from 1996 to 2005, he was also co-founder and director of the orchestra and choir at the Toledo Teacher Training School. Professor at the AYENSA Academy of Music, elementary conservatory. For a time, he was pedagogical director of Iniciativas Musicales Granada, training and coordinating teachers. Co-founder, teacher and teacher coordinator of the S.Cristóbal de Segovia music school. He has taught at the José Saramago University for the Elderly. He has been taught by Jacques Chapuis, Jaime Padró, Benet Casablancas, Charles Rosen, Timothy Jackson, William Kindermann, Constantin Floros, Ferenc Rados, Antoni Ros Marbá and Josep Pons.
Always a “student”, of his students, of his four children, of Music and of Life.