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Venezuelan oboist Pedro Falcón developed his musical skills through El Sistema, and has taken lessons and played in masterclasses with Livio Varcol, Guido Ghetti, Andreas Wittmann, Augusto Loppi, David Walter, Olivier Doise, Diethelm Jonas, Andrés Eloy Medina, Víctor Morles, Julián Ramos, and Maurice Bourgue. At the age of 22, he won the first chair of the oboe section in the Falcón Symphony Orchestra, one of the most important orchestras in Venezuela. Passionate about teaching music to young children, Pedro taught at the Santa Ana Conservatory of Music from 2006 to 2015, where he developed an extensive pedagogical program in conjunction with El Sistema. Pedro was active teaching in El Sistema’s innovative musical program in jails, an experience that gave him the vision that music can be taught even in the most challenging places. In 2017, he participated in a master class with the famous oboist Alex Klein at the IDRS Conference, and since then he has participated in masterclasses at the Chicago Double Reed Festival. Pedro has participated as an oboist at Citadel Dance & Music Center of St Joseph City, Michigan, South Carolina Philharmonic, The Long Bay Symphony, Union Symphony Orchestra (USO), The United States Air Force Band of Mid-America, and Aiken Orchestra. Pedro got a master’s degree in music performance with Jennet Ingle at Andrews University. In 2022 he worked as faculty of the Kim Noltemy Young Musician Program of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. In 2022, Pedro developed and designed a glove for Alex Klein that helped him to deal with his focal dystonia. He is completing his DMA at the University of South Carolina, where he worked with Rebecca Schalk Nagel and Hassan Anderson.