For the past eight years, Carlos has experienced an intense, passionate and complex relationship with his violin. He describes it as having been a psychological match with doubts, requests and questions. Should he play another instrument? Write music? Continue dedicating so much time and energy to the violin? But with the maturity of his twenty…

In November 2018, Casa Tres Mundos (C3M) asked their students and program participants about their perceptions of the music school and visual arts classes, and about their dreams for the future. Let’s listen to their answers! The quality of musical teaching and learning “I like to come to C3M because it is one of the…

For both 2017 and 2018, the choir of Casa de los Tres Mundos (C3M), a music/art school and cultural centre in Granada (Nicaragua), was inspired by the European tradition of caroling that consists of singers performing Christmas songs for families from door to door. The choir left its usual venues of cultural centres, amphitheatres and…

For both 2017 and 2018, the choir of Casa de los Tres Mundos (C3M), a music/art school and cultural centre in Granada (Nicaragua), was inspired by the European tradition of caroling that consists of singers performing Christmas songs for families from door to door. The choir left its usual venues of cultural centres, amphitheatres and…

A musician is completely immersed in his interpretation of a Bach suite and enchanting notes emanate from his cello. Behind him, a stone terrace leads to beautiful lush gardens with the glittering ocean and setting sun as the perfect backdrop. The setting? The luxury hotel Rancho Santana, located on Nicaragua’s Pacific Coast. The event? A…

Fifteen years ago, when just sixteen, Felix heard, just by chance, the Casa Tres Mundos (C3M) choir sing the Christmas carol The First Noel (La Primera Navidad). He fell in love with the song, the music and the choir. Felix has been involved with C3M ever since. C3M is a cultural centre, music and art…

Hazel feels very emotional and happy as she listens to her daughter Amy’s Mother’s Day concert interpretation of Madrecita del alma querida (“Mommy with a dear soul”) singing about her deep love for her mother. Hazel later states that “this moment was mine, just for me”. Hazel is not in the audience. She is standing…

Edwin is busy painting a bottle on a large sheet of white paper. He is calm and concentrated and, as his teachers explain, reinterpreting the reality of the bottle to paint it in two dimensions. He is surrounded by a happy group of 6-11 years old boys and girls, all busy painting gardens, families, animals…

Luzie and Daniel, two energetic youth who speak Spanish with a German accent, are reading stories to children in the library of Malacatoya, a disadvantaged community north of Granada (Nicaragua). Their enthusiasm and affection for the children fuel the love of reading among approximately 100 young readers. Luzie and Daniel spend the day in Malacatoya,…