More info coming soon. We would like to start our classes in Fall of 2022. We are excited to bring you this programing. Below is the details of the program!
Provide early learning voice and music lesson to children's ages 8 -12.
Students will learn to read music and the basic mechanics of breathing, vocalizing and body stature as well as how to distinguish bass and treble clefs.
At the final test of the course each student will have to demonstrate that they can name each note on a bass and treble clef as well as perform 2 songs in a group or choir setting.
The last Friday of each month the class will have a demonstration from a professional classical musician either a live classical Bolero and Aria from one of our teachers or a instrumental performance.
Up to 4 classes of (10 students each class) twice a week - 1 hour each class
4 Music Teachers
Live Performance demonstrations
Digital Learning Center Location
Music Book - Voices Classes for Kids (English & Spanish)
Born in Bogotá, Colombia. She started singing with her dad when she was 10 years old and participated in all the school music festivals. It was then that she realized that she really liked singing and she decided to study music.
Monica graduated from Universidad del Bosque in 2007 with a degree in Music, Classical Singing and Instrumental Teaching. She studied for 6 years under the guidance of Ramón Calzadilla and Liliana Iordanova, specializing in classical singing technique. After graduating she went to London to learn English and later moved to New York to take a contemporary dance course at the Peridance Capezio Center, which helped her a lot to get to know her body, her movements and develop more artistic skills that complemented her passion. for singing and music.
While in New York she was admitted to Lehman College to do ‘music education’ and she decided to put her studies on hiatus for a job opportunity that she presented to her husband in the United Arab Emirates. While she was there she had the opportunity to sing and that is how her music opened many doors for her, hence she was invited to sing in the jazz vocal ensemble Blue Fever and later with the Abu Dhabi Choral Group. After 4 years she moved to Colombia where she and a colleague created a jazz and gospel vocal ensemble called Velvet. Currently Monica is a private piano teacher for kids. Monica will be teaching on the higher ranges of the voice.
Andrew is the composer and arranger for Encanto Arts. Andrew received his Master’s in Viola Performance from Seattle Pacific University; while there, he took many courses on education and learned how to run a music studio. He’s also interned and coached at Marrowstone-In-The-City, which is Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra’s main orchestra camp over the summer, for kids below the age of 14, and has just started music directing at Village Theatre Kidstage in Issaquah. He is currently music directing an original musical at Rose Hill Middle School. Andrew will be teaching the students on notes music graphs and clefs.
He began his musical studies at the age of 10, at the University Institute of Fine Arts of Colima City, Mexico; Later he began his studies in the Bachelor of Orchestral Conducting with Mtro. Anatoly Zatin. He has a degree in Administrative and Financial Strategies from the I.M.P. and the Postgraduate in Cultural Policies and Cultural Management at the UAMI. He is currently a graduate of the Master's Degree in Musical Direction from UTP.
He has completed studies such as: Seminar on Orchestral Conducting, Computer Science Applied to Music, 1st. Choral Conducting course in the City of Colima, Orchestra and Band Conducting Masterclass, Orchestra and Band Conducting International Masterclass with the instruction of Mtro. Francisco Navarro Lara in two broadcasts 2014 and 2015, Masterclass on Orchestra Conducting with the instruction of Mtro. Ricardo Averbach, Training Workshop in Orchestra Conducting by the “Maestro Navarro Lara” school in Spain; Management Course
Orchestral with the instruction of Dr. Anatoly Zatín; Orchestral Conducting Course with the Instruction of Pablo Andrés Suárez Escobar from Colombia; to name a few.
He joined the State Government Service Music Band at the age of 17, currently holding the position of Artistic Director since April 2016; He has served as a professor at the U. de C. in the Faculty of Educational Sciences and as an official with the position of Director of Education and Culture. He is currently a professor at the Secretary of Education at the Secondary level in the subject of Artistic Expression and Appreciation, and winner of choir competitions since 1997, at the municipal, state and national levels.
Jose is one of only a handful of Tenor’s in the nation to combine Opera & Mariachi bolero music in his concerts. Many have described Jose vocal range and power as spine tingling and something mesmerizing.
Iñiguez was nominated for the Governor’s Individual Heritage award for 2015 and is an award-winning 2016 Latin Music artist by Univision for his music program ENCANTO which takes place at the Benaroya Hall, the mecca for classical music in the city of Seattle. Iñiguez and the artists that perform with him at the ENCANTO concert, take the audience on a cultural journey that pairs the ethereal beauty of opera aria and classical piano with the charm of mariachi bolero. In 2017 Jose was awarded the distinguished Central Washington University Leader-under-40 Award. In 2018 José was awarded an honorary Seattle Metropolitan Latino Chamber of Commerce Leader Award and in 2019 was awarded Mid-Columbia Libraries & Tri-cities Latino Community Network Latino leader award for his work in business and his support of Education, as many of his concert proceeds have went to supporting students dreams of attending a higher education.
Through his work in in the community he established three Iniguez Family Scholarship Endowments to honor the memory of his parents, Santiago Iniguez & Guadalupe Rodriguez, at Columbia Basin College, Central Washington University, and Eastern Washington University. You can see his story on PBS as it is currently being shown through out the country. Give customers a reason to do business with you. Jose has been will be teaching the kids on breathing and diaphragm work and the mechanics of singing. But will concentrate on more of the bass and lower voice students in the program
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