Year End Holiday Training for Concert Band

Bert Aalders SIBF workshop

A warm welcome to Mr Bert Aalders to Edgefield Sec for the SIBF workshop

SIBF 2018

32 of our students took part in the performance for the Singapore International Band Festival (SIBF) competition today. 

https://www.sibf.sg/schedule2018/Edgefield-Secondary-School-Concert-Band

Results 

https://www.sibf.sg/results/2B

We won the Bronze Award

SIBF competition

All the best to the team for the SIBF competition Thurs 26 July 2018.
The award ceremony will be held on Sat 29 July 2018.
Schools in the SIBF competition:
Wed 25 July https://www.sibf.sg/division-2b-schedule-25jul
Thurs 26 July https://www.sibf.sg/division-2b-schedule-26jul
We are the second school on 26 July.
https://www.sibf.sg/schedule2018/Edgefield-Secondary-School-Concert-Band

There will also be a SIBF workshop by Mr. Bert Aalders on Mon 30 July 2018.

https://www.sibf.sg/schedule

Band Poster

As the team geared towards their SIBF performance next week, a quick glance on the activities which the students have gone through the last few months.

Soul 29 June 2018

34 of our concert band members performed at the Soul Arts Festival on 29 June at the multi-purpose hall in Punggol Topaz.

1st piece played was Chanuka which is a festive song created to commemorate and celebrate the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah.

2nd piece played was Sedona - a bold and entertaining theme filled with life. apology - last 1 min not captured

Yamashita workshop 22 June 2018

Thanks to Mr Yamashita for conducting the workshop.

June Holiday 2018 band training

Celebration

Celebrating the last performance of the graduating members on Speech Day and ordered pizza. Time flies. Below is a photo when there were in sec 1.

 

The graduating Sec 4 leaders

 

Speech day 2018

The  Sec 2 to 5 students were involved in the Speech day performance. We performed 3 short pieces - March Together, Lighthearted March and Fanfare Processional that the Uniform Group marched to. This is also the last performance by the graduating members.

 

Thank You to all, including our Conductor and teachers!

2018 Term 2 week 1 & 2 training schedule

 For the usual CCA training, all Sec 1s + Seniors are required to attend.

21/3 Wednesday  CCA CANCELLED
22/3 Thuursday   CCA     parade rehearsal starts at 4pm (non-playing sec 1s excused)
23/3 Friday          CCA as usual


26/3 Monday       CCA      parade rehearsal starts at 4pm (non-playing sec 1s excused)
28/3 Wednesday CCA as usual
29/3 Thursday   Actual Speech Day (except Sec 1s)
30/3 Friday       CCA CANCELLED , rest well on Good Friday 😊

Report on time as printed on the cca training letter, please approach the teachers if you do not have a copy of it. 
Urge all members to attend training especially on the day a parade rehearsal will be taking place (as indicated above) so that band as a team is ready to put up our best performance on the actual speech day. 

Drum major and student conductor workshop 2017

Congratulations to Jun Xiang for completing the drum major workshop and Jamie for completing the student conductor workshop in 2017.

CCA Carnival 2018

At the annual CCA Carnival for our newly batch of Secondary 1 students, Concert Band had set up a booth and a few percussion instruments. Woodwind and brass instruments were also brought down. Seniors played a few rounds of performance and solo songs around the booth too. 

 Sec 1s had the chance to try out some of our drum sets.

 Introducing Baritone Saxophone...

 Seniors mending the booth and answering queries from Sec 1s.

 also introducing trumpet...

 Some of the Sec 1s signed up for the audition, we will see you there on 17 Jan !

 We gave out flyers, calendar cards and many many candies !

 Thanks for coming to our booth, Sec 1s !😉

The carnival ended successfully with quite a number of interested Sec 1s signing up.

Members, Thank you so much for making this possible!

As well as our band teachers.

❤ We hope to grow our Concert Band family so do join us in 2018 ❤