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B.C.P.P  Friday, May 8, 2009

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2nd Chromatic  

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Executive Committee  

Committee 2010/2011:

Chairman: Ng Jia Yi
Vice-Chairman: Kenny Ong
2nd Section Leader: Wong Gui Hong
Octave: Jolene Cheng Shi Hui, Cheng Shi Hui
Percussion: Farahdillah, Yardana
Quarter-Master: Chaw Po Ei Ei, Adilah

Committee 2009/2010:

Chairman: Veronica Tang Boon Ting
Vice-Chairman: Greta Lee Shuqi, Chia Hao Gen
1st Section Leaders: Shannon Peck Rui Bing, Ng Xin Wei
2nd Section Leader: Ong Li Ying
Octave Section Leader: Zoey Koh Jie Yi
Percussion Section Leader: Amirah, Chin Wee
Quarter-Masters: Lara Del Mundo, Chin Wee

Committee 2008/2009:

Chairman: Pang Poi Wong
Vice-Chairman: Yu Yi Tian
1st Section Leaders: Edmund Ong
2nd Section Leader: Veronica Loh Xin Yi, Ng Ai Poh
Octave Section Leader: Tan Xiao Qin
Percussion Section Leader: Melvyn Ng
Quarter-Master: Wong Min Er, Lim Shi Jie


Committee 2007/2008:

Chairman: Chan Li Hui
Vice-Chairman: Yap Jew Yen
1st Section Leaders: Jerlyn Peck
2nd Section Leader: Lam Shin Yi, Lor Li Lai
Octave Section Leader: Li Hui Lan
Percussion Section Leader: Sze Hern, Siah Ban Hock, Tan Zheng Sheng
Quarter-Masters: Brentha T


Committee 2006/2007:

Chairman: Wan Hui Ying
Vice-Chairman: Loke Shian Shun, Jeslyn Chua, Koh Hui Xian
1st Section Leaders: Chia Lee Ling, Kelly Lye
2nd Section Leader: Lim Jing Wen, Chen Xin Yi
Octave Section Leader: (Wan Hui Ying)
Percussion Section Leader: Daphne Chua
Quarter-Masters: Neo Pei Wen

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Achievements  

Bi-Annual Singapore Youth Festival Competitions Awards

SYF 1999 – Silver Award (Instrumental Category)
SYF 2001 – Silver Award (Instrumental Category)
SYF 2003 – Silver Award (Instrumental Category)
SYF 2005 – Gold With Honors Award (Instrumental Category)
SYF 2007 – Gold Award (Instrumental Category)
SYF 2009 - Silver Award (Instrumental Category)


International Award

Asia Pacific Harmonica Festival 2008 - Winner (Creative Category Performance)
Asia Pacific Harmonica Festival 2010 - Gold Award (Orchestra - Open/Youth Category)

Other Awards

Year 2004 4th Rotary Ambassador of the Arts Award (Music Instrument) Gold

Overseas Excursion

Year 2004 - Hong Kong (Musical Exchange)
Year 2007 - Malaysia Genting (Malaysia Harmonica Festival)
Year 2008 - Hang Zhou (China) Asia Pacific Harmonica Festival

The Teachers  

About YHHB  

Welcome. To Yuhua Harmonica Band.



Established since 1986, the Yuhua Harmonica Band is a close-knitted organization with strong ties between teachers, students and alumnus, its main objective is in promoting and cultivating interest in the harmonica to the masses through concerts and public performances show casing the unique features of the harmonica.

Mr. Tang Yuen Wai, our principal conductor, is in charge of the Yuhua Harmonica Band's musical and art direction and he has been with us since 2003, under his baton, the band have made significant progress every since. Mr. Tang himself is a renowned and excellent harmonicist who is able to play the chromatic and the tremelo harmonica with ease. He is widely recognized by the local and international harmonica fraternity to be an excellent harmonicist with a very wide variety of talent on various instruments which have helped him build up various harmonica bands in schools of Singapore.

Members will be taught by experience instructors and seniors on how to play the harmonica on a basic level. The beginning process will take up about 4 to 5 months, after which, they will be streamlined into various sections to make up the parts in an orchestra. These sections include:

1. 1st Chromatic Harmonica
2. 2nd Chromatic Harmonica
3. Tenor Harmonica
4. Octave Harmonica
5. Bass Harmonica
6. Horn Harmonica
7. Chord Harmonica
8. Double Bass Strings
9 Percussion Section

A section by itself will not be able to make any music, however together, wonderful music can be made together.

"If music be the food of love, play on." - Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

Besides taking part in competitions, practices and performing at concerts, students will also have ample opportunities in taking part in exchanges ideas and appreciation of the harmonica frequently between different schools, appreciating music through musical concerts. There will also be opportunities to take part in international competition like the Asia Pacific Harmonica Festival recently concluded in Singapore last year 2010.

As a harmonica band member, it is quite possible to obtain a favorable grade with the CCA Points system, based on the amount of activities the band participates every year. With the CCA Point Gradining System, students will be able to use the points during JAE process every year to reduce the barrier in points towards a preferred course in polytechnics.

If you are keen for more information regarding Yuhua Harmonica Band. Please look for any of the Harmonica Band Members or Teachers In Charge during our practice. Alternatively you may want to email us at yuhua.harmonica@gmail.com and we will get back to you as soon as possible.

Our practice schedules are as follows:

Wednesday 2.30 PM to 5.30 PM

Friday 1.30 PM to 5.30 PM

Saturday 9.00 AM to 2.30 PM

These are our teacher-in-charge:

Mdm. Chan May Foon
Ms. Vanderstraaten
Mr. Stanley Yeo
Mdm. Peng Lian Er