Claudia Tolipan was born in Rio de Janeiro, studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, Pedagogy and School Administration at University Santa Úrsula in Rio de Janeiro.

As a Pianist, she has performed with major orchestras in Brazil, South America and in Europe. Claudia has run workshops, master Classes and Seminars at Latin American Conferences ,England and lectured on the importance of Music in early years education in several Universities both in Brazil and abroad such as Warwick University in Surrey, Music Schools across Yorkshire and Music Schools in London.

She has been the Head of Primary Music Botafogo site, for a number of years and has a vital role developing the Music Curriculum across the school. The workshop will help teachers to create a successful, progressive primary music curriculum and develop the awareness of coming away from the formal structure and opens a door not only to rhythm and sound, but to rhythmic as whole and music as a universal sound.

Claudia will be presenting the workshop:
Music to Motivate Learning