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Life After my Senior High School Year at Carmel High School, NY (a wonderful and unforgetable experience for a 15 year old chosen Exchange Student from my High School in Lima), I came back to the country where I was born (Peru)and went to college at the Catholic University. In 1971 I made a very important choice for myself: I left the modern piano for the ancient keyboard instruments. Prof. Lola Odiaga (Yale University)was for me a very important person who had to do very much with this decision. Then, with a scholarship from the "Kultusministerium" from Austria, I went to Vienna, where I studied at the "Hochschule für Musik" (Harpsichord) and at the "Universität Wien" (1972-1974). I came back to Peru and undertook graduate studies at the same University, where I graduate in Philosophy with a Thesis on Presocratic Philosophy (1978). Then, again with a scholarship (this time from the german DAAD), I returned to Europe (Germany), where I studied at the Heidelberg University Philology (Classical and Roman), Philosophy and Musicology (1979-1982) and obtained my degree of Dr. phil. I worked also as a Researcher at the "Romanisches Seminar", after winning another Contest there. I also was a student there at the "Hochschule für Jüdische Studien" and a sort of "Lehrling" at Reiner Schütze's Harpsichord Atelier. 1980 marked a very important change in my life: I went as a student to Sienna, Italy, at the "Università degli Studi" and at the "Accademia Musicale Chigiana" (here I was a listening student in 1980 with Gustav Leonhardt a...Expand for more