Heart & Beat Music - Our Teachers

All of our teachers undergo an intensive training through Music Together^® LLC and the Princeton Center for Music and Young Children to become registered Music Together teachers. We have all completed an apprenticeship and continue to receive the latest research from the field with ongoing Music Together workshops before the start of each new session.We are specially trained to create a safe atmosphere where you can happily join in, experiment, and even get silly -- all while strengthening the bond with your child. We are all passionate about music and the development of young children, and hope to inspire a whole new generation of music-makers who can sing in tune, move in rhythm and participate with joy and confidence as they create music with family and friends throughout their lives. We create a fun, informal, social setting that spurs engagement and supports each child's musical development. We love what we do!

		Genesis Adelia Collado Genesis is a performer, voice actor, vocal coach, and Twitch Streamer based in the Bronx, NY. She made her off-Broadway debut in "Notes From Now,” and performed in Broadway in the Park en México with Lance Horne. Recently, Genesis lent her voice to the musical audio drama "The Doctor Is Dead,” and joined Troy Anthony & Adrienne Maree Brown in "To Feel A Thing: A Ritual For Emergence” with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, which continued development in Amsterdam with the Holland Festival last summer. Genesis has experience teaching music to & taking care of children, and when she first sat in on a Music Together class, she felt so at home! Genesis loves how the room is always so warm and welcoming, the sense of community between the families and teachers is so strong and lovely.

Jamie Washington Jamie began her Music Together journey under the direction of Dr. Lili Levinowitz (a co-founder of Music Together!) while attending Rowan University and quickly fell in love with teaching music to children of all ages. She graduated with an undergraduate degree in Vocal Music Education in 2016 and moved to NYC to pursue her dream of teaching music in the city. Jamie has been a public elementary school music teacher in the Bronx for the past seven years and has privately taught voice, piano, music theory, and guitar lessons for the past fifteen years. In 2020, Jamie and her husband Travis founded a nonprofit organization, Journey to Harmony, which supplied food/resources to their community and formed the Bronx's first district-wide elementary choir. She continued to grow her interest in music and its impact on learning and received her Master's degree in Educational Psychology in 2021. Jamie was introduced to Music Together when she began attending classes with her daughter Lyrica, and she loves making Music Together with Heart & Beat Music families!

		Kirsten Hopkins Kirsten has worked as a professional actor and singer for more than a decade in regional theaters around the country. She grew up in Southern California, where she attended Los Angeles County High School for the Arts, and later lived in Seattle where she got her BFA in Theater from Cornish College of the Arts. She has many years of experience as a nanny and babysitter (and has attended many Music Together classes here in NYC with kid-in-tow!) and has also worked as an acting teacher for kids. She is a member of Actors Equity Association and very happy to be joining the Music Together community. You can go to her website, www.kirstenhopkins.com, to read more about her acting career and see pictures of her being very goofy, which is one of her areas of expertise! Music Together has awarded her Certification Level I status for outstanding achievement in teaching, musicianship, program philosophy, and parent education.

Reanna Adelstein Reanna’s journey to Music Together^® began as a parent in class. After falling in love with the Music Together program with her boys, she completed the teacher training through Music Together LLC Worldwide. She also teaches Music Together up in Peekskill and Croton with Peek-a-Boo Family Music! Reanna is a seasoned performer with vast professional experience in theater and music. She is a graduate of The American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York City and has toured the country performing lead roles in musicals for young audiences. Favorite shows include Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin and The Ugly Duckling. In addition to her career as a leading lady in musicals and cabarets, Reanna has a special affinity for teaching music, theater and dance to young children. She has worked as a teaching artist with Wingspan Arts and a teaching assistant for Gymboree Play and Music, both in New York City. In Westchester, she was a teaching assistant with New Rochelle Day Nursery, where she entertained children singing with her autoharp and choreographed the final pre-k graduation performance.

		Rosana Matilde Ghussin Rosana is thrilled to joined the Heart and Beat staff and teach Canta y Baila Conmigo^®. Her background includes a bachelor’s and a master’s degrees in Early Childhood Education, from the University of Puerto Rico and Hunters College respectively. Rosana has worked as with young children for more than 20 years. Teaching at schools in Puerto Rico and New York City, summer camps, after school programs and teaching through play and music. Her love and respect for early education, language, music and dance has made Canta y Baila Conmigo^® a perfect venture that merges her passion and continue her career as a teacher while being the primary caretaker of her children. She is a wife and a mother of two young boys. Come and join her at “Canta y Baila Conmigo^®”, “Sing and Dance with Me.”

Siobhan O'Malley, Director

Siobhan (Center Director/Owner of Heart and Beat Music) is delighted to be part of the Music Together family! Siobhan grew up in a musical family that used to crowd around a piano and sing together (no lie!). Music was as much a part of her childhood as eating and breathing and for that she thanks her lucky stars! Her family unearthed a recording of some songs she wrote as a kid, including the Casio-backed songs "France Is Good For You" and "Puff Pies (Any Kind You Want)". She studied classical piano for over 10 years, and then made her way into learning guitar, banjo, and ukelele (in that order).

After receiving her B.A. in theatre from James Madison University, she worked as an actor while also discovering her passion for music-making. As a singer-songwriter, Siobhan has released three albums ("Permanent Markers", "Alibi Bye", and "Let's Get Ahead of Ourselves, Baby!") which are all available on all streaming services. Siobhan regularly plays her music in venues in NYC and has toured the US as well. You can see her live or hear her "grown up" songs at www.siobhanomalley.com.

She and her cousins (The O'Malley Family Band) are also the resident house band at the "Mortified" shows in Brooklyn every month.

She and her husband, Ben, love making up goofy songs for their daughter, Beatrice and son, Ernie. She is passionate about the Music Together program and loves making music together with all of you!