About YHHB Friday, May 8, 2009
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.
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
Mdm. Chan May Foon
Ms. Vanderstraaten
Mr. Stanley Yeo
Mdm. Peng Lian Er
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
Xamuel @ 8:49 PM.
