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Music is a language, but unlike to French or Portuguese, music does not need to be understood in order to feel it. It goes straight into our hearts. This is why all children love music; they all understand it! Merely listening to music lights up multiple areas of our brain as we process its different components like rhythm or melody. However, neuroscientists have shown that playing it sets off fireworks in our brain as nearly every corner of it is activated! For more information on the amazing benefits of playing music, check this out.
Stories allow children a peek into other realities. It helps them envision themselves in different circumstances and learn from these. Our storytime classes aim to strengthen our children’s pre-literacy skills through our four elements of language development: reading, singing, talking and playing. Each week, we will explore a new letter, with its new sounds and an array of fun books that revolve around this letter.
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Not only does it do wonders to strengthen children’s motor skills, but art is magical because it shows children a space with no limits. There is no right and wrong when it comes to art. Through the manipulation of materials, colors and textures, our classes teach children that, with diligent work, new things can be created from nothing. We ask that our art students are able to walk since it is a prerequisite for being able to function in the class (art classes coming soon!)
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Born in Buenos Aires and raised across Spain and the United States, Florencia Begue holds a Bachelor of Music, with a focus on Jazz. She specializes now on voice pedagogy, having conducted choirs and vocal ensembles with young students. She has been teaching and performing for over 20 years in Spain. She is currently teaching at the renowned Centro Superior de Música Creativa. She recently became a mother and she is diligently working on helping her baby, and other infants fall in love with music.
Ana is a musician, historian and devoted grandmother, was a teacher at Instituto Gordon de Educación Musical de España. Ana Carvajal holds a BA in Musicology, and worked in the Museo del Prado cataloguing music iconography in the museum's collection together with her research team. She now spends her time teaching music to young students as well as music history to adults. She has been in the genesis of bloom house and is excited to see it grow.
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An artistic journeyman originally from Hartford, Connecticut, Sean Clapis has shared the stage with American jazz masters like Steve Davis, Warren Wolf, Gene Jackson or European all-stars like Cyrille Aimee, Antonio Serrano and Bill McHenry have made him one of the most eclectic and versatile guitarists working on the jazz scene today. Dad of 2, soon to be 3, Sean is committed to making his love for music contagious to children.
After graduating from Columbia University, where she tutored many lower school kids in Harlem, Victoria Zavala worked as a lower school Spanish teacher in New York. After her Masters degree in Psychology, from Harvard University, where she deepened her understanding in childhood development and systemic structures, she came back to Madrid, her native city. She has reunited her passion for children, psychology and music to found bloom house.
After graduating from Columbia University, where she tutored many lower school kids in Harlem, Victoria Zavala worked as a lower school Spanish teacher in New York. After her Masters degree in Psychology, from Harvard University, where she deepened her understanding in childhood development and systemic structures, she came back to Madrid, her native city. She has reunited her passion for children, psychology and music to found bloom house.
