ms. Sandra Jimena lozano calderon
(B.Music)
Cello Faculty
Born in Bogota, Colombia. She began her musical training at the Conservatory of Music of the National University. She received her undergraduate degree, Major in Cello at Juan N. Corpas University in Colombia under the mentoring of Henkyk Zarcycki and Minor in Conducting. Her Monograph Degree Research was selected as a National Heritage being part of the Musical Documentation Center in the National Library of Colombia. In Colombia, she worked as teacher of Cello in the Suzuki Program at National University; she also served as teacher of cello and Theory at National University, University of the Andes, University of Cundinamarca, Batuta Meta (National program for creation of orchestras similar to El Sistema), Foundation Youth Orchestra of Colombia and several private academies and training schools in Bogota. In 2008 she was the winner of the Research Fellowship of the Bank of the Republic ” Fellowship Luis Angel Arango Library 50 years”.
In 2020 she was selected by the Colombian Government as one of the 100 outstanding Colombians living abroad thanks to her social and cultural work with several organizations and ONGs in Hong Kong such as The Holy See Mission, General Consulates of Colombia, United Arab Emirates, Italia, Spanish Chamber of Commerce, El Sistema Hong Kong, Speaking Spanish Women Association, The Chinese Foundation Secondary School and Italian Art Foundation.
She has been sharing her love for learning, teaching and performing music in The United States, Mexico, Argentina, The Philippines, Colombia, Spain, UK, Belgium, Italy, Germany, France, Israel, Venezuela, Holland, France, Czech Republic and Mainland China. She has been teaching cello for more than 20 years, the last six based in Hong Kong working full time as a Suzuki teacher receiving outstanding comments about her students among the Cello World Community.
Apart from teaching music, Ms Sandra loves to be mentally active taking trainings in Suzuki Method, pedagogy, well-being, learning process, neuropsychology and also doing social work, practicing Tai Chi, Meditation, dancing latin music and explore Hong Kong, a city that she deeply loves and feels as home.