About BMusica

It started with one keyboard and a closed door.

In 2020 the world shut, and music schools shut with it. Botros Ghaly kept teaching anyway — one student, one camera, one keyboard. Six years later BMusica instructors teach families across four continents, and the first physical BMusica centre is open in Tanta.

Our story

Six years, in five moments.

2020

One instructor, one student

BMusica opens during the pandemic as an experiment: can a real music lesson survive a video call? The answer turned out to be yes — but only if the lesson is redesigned for the screen instead of copied onto it.

2021

The families abroad find us

Arab parents in the United States, Canada and Germany start asking for something nobody local could give them: a serious music teacher who speaks Arabic. Scheduling across time zones becomes the thing we get very good at.

2023

Specialists, not generalists

Instead of adding teachers who teach everything, we add specialists — a vocal coach who is a doctor of the voice, a darbuka player who teaches nothing else. Every instructor teaches one instrument.

2025

A building with a door on it

The first BMusica Music Center opens in Tanta, Egypt. Online stays the heart of what we do, but there is now a room where students meet, rehearse and perform in person.

Today

200+ students, 10+ countries

Piano, Guitar, Vocal and Darbuka, taught one to one, in Arabic and English, at any hour of the day, in whatever time zone the family lives in.

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Meet the founder

Botros Ghaly

Pianist, bass guitarist and music educator · founder of BMusica Academy

“Every student can learn music. What they need is the right guidance, real encouragement, and a structure that does not depend on whether they felt inspired that week.”

Botros has been teaching for nine years and has taught more than two hundred students online, across the United States, Canada, Europe and the Middle East. He founded BMusica in 2020 and opened the academy’s first physical centre in Tanta in 2025.

He still teaches every week — not because the academy needs him in the room, but because you cannot design a teaching method you have stopped practising.

Our vision

Make serious music education reach the people it usually misses.

Four things we are building towards, and measure ourselves against.

Reach

Every Arab family, wherever they landed

A child in Calgary, Doha or Melbourne should have the same access to a serious Arabic-speaking music teacher as a child in Cairo. Distance should decide nothing.

Depth

Music education, not music entertainment

Real technique, real theory, real repertoire — delivered with structure and measured progress, not a stream of fun videos that lead nowhere.

Bridge

Online and in person, one academy

The Tanta centre is the first of several. The plan is a network where a student can move between a screen and a room without changing method or teacher.

Language

Music taught in the language of home

Learning an instrument in your mother tongue makes the theory land faster — and keeps the language alive in families who live far from it.

What we believe

Six things we will not compromise on.

Any student can learn music.

Talent decides how fast, not whether. With the right guidance and a structure to follow, every student we have taught has progressed.

The lesson is not the whole job.

What happens in the six days between lessons decides the result. That is why practice feedback runs all week, not just on the call.

Parents deserve evidence.

A monthly written note saying what was covered and what improved. No parent should have to guess whether the money is working.

One instructor, one instrument.

We would rather have four specialists than ten generalists. A darbuka player should teach darbuka, and nothing else.

Enjoyment is a technique, not a bonus.

A student who looks forward to the lesson practises more. Building the lesson around music they already love is a teaching decision, not a marketing one.

No pressure, ever.

Free trial, no card, no contract, no follow-up calls. If it is not right for your family, we would rather you say so.

Offline centre · since 2025

There is a real building behind this website.

The BMusica Music Center in Tanta is where our instructors rehearse, where local students learn in person, and where the online curriculum gets tested before it reaches your living room.

Address

Tanta, Gharbia Governorate, Egypt

Opened

2025 — the first BMusica centre

What happens there

In-person lessons, rehearsals, recitals and group sessions

Visiting

Message us on WhatsApp before you come so an instructor is there