ABSTRACT
This article aims to show how the context of the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the working and personal conditions of music teachers in Chile. During the first year of this pandemic, 154 music teachers were consulted about their personal and professional situation in order to find out how they were dealing with the context of distance education. The data collected and contrasted with the bibliography consulted allow us to observe not only a modification and reinvention of their educational practices but also an important capacity for reinvention and self-motivation and an ability to move forward. These capacities are included in the concept of resilience. All of these observations lay the foundations for sensing a contextualized musical education with the ability to adapt to reality and the continuous changes that it presents and where the role of music education within the curriculum becomes in turn more important and significant, both for the student body as well as for the curriculum development of the educative system.