Who We Are

Born in Buenos Aires, raised in Brook­lyn around art & a fam­ily busi­ness , we all moved to the US with our
par­ents when we were lit­tle. This is us.

Our father was an excep­tion­ally tal­ented artist, our mother an unas­sum­ingly strong woman ahead of her gen­er­a­tion, together bring­ing skills of busi­ness acu­men and hard work to the table where we learned strong work ethic and respect.

There were always skills learned around our house, whether we learned to build our own fur­ni­ture to cre­at­ing our own art, our house thrived on doing things our­selves.  There we picked up the love of learn­ing and how crazy beau­ti­ful it is in so many aspects of life.

Now together we bring you this music work­shop with the intent of shar­ing the love of learn­ing music and the joy it brings into people’s lives as it has to ours.

Let’s cel­e­brate this foun­tain of youth that we were lucky enough to dis­cover as children.

Here’s a lit­tle bit more about each of us:

 

Adrian Edward

Music Afi­cionado, Song­writer, Designer and Instruc­tor
Nick­name: Age

Age dis­cov­ered music at 14 and from there became obsessed with every­thing about how to make it and play it. He put him­self through high school 2 years ear­lier so he could go straight into his music edu­ca­tion and then went straight into clas­si­cal and later jazz train­ing. As  Age does most things, it was music day, night and sum­mers. Music all the time. It was all about skill, the­ory, prac­tice and how to make his own music.

He later took his cre­ativ­ity to the next stage by form­ing a band under his own name to show­case and put to work his skills not only as a per­former but as an amaz­ing song­writer. Along the way  impart­ing this pas­sion to others.

Today, he’s the music ther­a­pist at The Guild for Excep­tional Chil­dren where he teaches chil­dren to use music as a means to com­mu­ni­cate with the out­side world. He also main­tains a list of pri­vate stu­dents. And because he loves what he does he turns learn­ing music into a full inter­ac­tive expe­ri­ence. He’ll make you love learning.

• Things that Rock: B Hor­ror movies, jug­gling, the World Cup & good burgers.
• Things that DO NOT Rock: Cold weather, loud talk­ers & close talkers.

Adri­ana

Pub­lic Rela­tions and Latin Amer­i­can Liaison

Adri­ana  is a true peo­ple per­son and great at orga­niz­ing and man­ag­ing projects.  She radi­ates warmth and cre­ates a sense of fam­ily and togeth­er­ness wher­ever she goes.

She con­tin­ues in one of our family’s many cre­ative sides, fash­ion. One grand­mother worked for an Ital­ian men’s designer for many years and our other grand­mother was an amaz­ingly tal­ented, self taught bridal gown designer and cre­ator. Adri­ana has been in the fash­ion indus­try for 15 years work­ing with promi­nent fash­ion houses such as Ralph Lau­ren, Oscar de La Renta, Ermenegildo Zegna and Versace.

Adri­ana also has a stong back­ground in lan­guages, stud­ied trans­la­tion at New York Uni­ver­sity, and worked as an inter­preter and Eng­lish instruc­tor to top exec­u­tives in Buenos Aires.  She is cur­rently focus­ing heav­ily on the devel­op­ment of our Span­ish site, due to the over­whelm­ing demand of these music courses in Span­ish across the U.S. and Latin America.

• Things that Rock: The beach, good books, fam­ily, New York City, a warm smile, trav­el­ing & a great pair of boots
• Things that DO NOT Rock: Harsh win­ters, bad hair days, rude peo­ple & bad spelling

Mariel

Tech Guru & Cre­ative MacGyver

Mar­ket­ing, Finance & Web Mgmt

With the cre­ative juices flow­ing in the fam­ily Mariel was a quick learner from very early on: — grandpa was an amaz­ing sculp­tor and dad a bril­liant painter.  Pick­ing up sewing skills and design from mom and grandma every­thing seemed nec­es­sary to learn.

As a teenager, she was already design­ing clothes and win­ning awards in pho­tog­ra­phy. At 17 she designed, pro­duced and pho­tographed her own fash­ion show.

Know­ing that cre­ativ­ity and busi­ness was her future, she left NYU to begin her first com­pany export­ing lin­gerie to South Amer­ica, then onto cre­ate a graphic/web design com­pany, a silk-screening busi­ness and var­i­ous inter­net projects. At the same time build­ing her artis­tic skills at Par­sons School of Design and Fash­ion Insti­tute of Tech­nol­ogy in New York as well as work­ing on fash­ion run­way shows with such labels as Car­olina Her­rera, Custo Barcelona, Dolce & Gab­bana, etc.

In her early 20’s,  she “ran away with the cir­cus” ( Cirque du Soleil ) to work with the incred­i­bly tal­ented artists, musi­cians & crew where she learned to play the drums and the djembe and got to learn french (Que­be­cois) as well.

Cur­rently she con­tin­ues to work on var­i­ous busi­ness ven­tures as well as on her pho­tog­ra­phy and design projects.

A tal­ented cook, designer & entre­pre­neur –oh and did I tell you she can do a mean cartwheel ?

 

• Things that DO NOT Rock: Ketchup, Nor­mal Hours, Warm/Flat beer and Gum (buagh!)
• Things that Rock: Tools, old cam­eras & vin­tage any­thing , rac­ing games, New York  &  Pine Bros. cough drops  (They’re back!)