Known as the long serving bandmaster of the St. Patrick’s School Military Band (SPSMB) since 1984, David Anthony Glosz has been greatly involved with the band scene for over 30 years. The Band Post speaks… Read More »Heart Truths with David Glosz
With slightly less than two weeks to the Singapore Youth Festival (SYF) Arts Presentation for Junior College and Centralized Institute Level, a six school band exchange was organised, this time hosted by the Anglo Chinese… Read More »More Than A Band Exchange
Microsoft has announced that it has recently teamed up with Sibelius, one of the world’s best-selling music composition software, to bring its app to the award-winning Surface tablet. It further stated that making notes in Sibelius with… Read More »Writing On Surface
“YOU GOTTA HAVE H.E.A.R.T.” The seed of this article came from a student who was asked to write a paper about her most influential teacher. She had to describe what separated this particularly educator from… Read More »Have a Heart, Be a Great Teacher
Singaporean-born Lau Wen Rong is the first brass player in the country to be accepted into Juilliard School of Music this year for the Masters of Music program. “I have always wanted to attend the Juilliard… Read More »Juilliard: A Singapore’s First
Haruka Kida (Japan) Bassoon/ Saitama Prefectural Kuki High School Saxophone/ Kuki Municipal Kurihashi-Higashi Junior High School I am very happy that it was my band journey that made my personal stature and self awareness grow over the… Read More »My Band Journey: Haruka Kida
(cover photo credit: Jeff Low, Style Revisited) Singaporean Conductor Kahchun Wong recently completed his dream debut with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra on March 6 this year, performing two symphonic poems by Liszt (Orpheus, Les Preludes) and Wagner’s… Read More »Up Close with Kahchun Wong
Originally published in the Band Journal 56(7) (2014 June issue), Ongaku No Tomo Sha Corp, p.49, titled “「シンガポールの吹奏楽事情から日本の現状を考える」, the following content is translated from the original article written by Kurokawa, Keiichi in 2014, republished under the… Read More »Analyzing the Present Japanese Band State
On the evening of Saturday, 28 March, 323 adult and student musicians gathered at the Goodman Arts Centre to play the National Anthem together. Rallied through social media platforms and word of mouth within two days,… Read More »Majulah Singapura!
(cover photo: NUS Wind Symphony on Stage / credit: Jingkai) In conjunction with the 110th anniversary of National University of Singapore (NUS) and the celebration of Singapore’s 50 years, NUS Wind Symphony presented a repertoire of… Read More »The Singapore Paranoma
