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michaeld.67199
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Michael Drewes was born in Germany and moved with his family to Mexico City at age fourteen, where he lived for twenty-six years. His youthful interests centered on drawing, sculpting and designing buildings. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Architecture and his Masters in Art History from Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, and his Ph. D. in Architectural History from University of Kaiserslautern, Germany. Michael Drewes, from Germany, lived in Mexico City for twenty-six years. He was interested in drawing, sculpting and designing buildings. Drewes became curious about music in his mid-teens and learned to play the cello in school at that time. It was his only formal music training. As he started college, his mild interest became more intense, and he studied music theory, harmony and composing on his own. Musical ideas began to come to him, and he would write them down, sometimes with the aid of a neighbour's piano, and sometimes right from his head to paper - even symphonies - which he never heard, since orchestral facilities were not within his reach.