Hey guys! As we all already know by now, our band would be participating in the 3rd National Band Competition 2010 (Singapore) to be held on July 10 2010. By the way the list of participating bands & the adjudication panels are listed below:
1. Anglican High School 2. Balestier Hill Secondary School 3. Bartley Secondary School 4. Bendemeer Secondary School 5. Bukit Timah Primary School 6. Cedar Girls' Secondary School 7. CHIJ St. Nicholas Girls' School 8. Chua Chu Kang Secondary School 9. Compassvale Secondary School 10. Crescent Girls' School 11. East Spring Secondary School 12. Evergreen Secondary School 13. Fairfield Methodist School (Secondary) 14. Geylang Methodist Secondary School 15. Greenridge Secondary School 16. Hwa Chong Institution 17. Institute of Technical Education Band 18. Junyuan Secondary School 19. Nan Chiau High School 20. Ngee Ann Secondary School 21. North Vista Secondary School 22. Outram Secondary School 23. Peirce Secondary School 24. Raffles Girls School (Secondary) 25. Sembawang Secondary School 26. Serangoon Secondary School 27. Shuqun Secondary School 28. Singapore Polytechnic 29. Tanjong Katong Girls' School 30. Temasek Polytechnic 31. Westwood Secondary School 32. Woodlands Secondary School 33. X - Winds 34. Zhenghua Secondary School 35. Zhonghua Secondary School
Adjudication Panel
Professor John Howard Director London College of Music Examinations Thames Valley University United Kingdom
Associate Professor Ho Hwee Long
Visual and Performing Arts Academic Group (Music)
National Institute of Education
Singapore
Mr. Mitsuo Nonami
Conductor/Clinician
Japan
So guys! We have approximately52 DAYS left before the showdown. Let's work very hard to put on a commendable performance on that day. GOLD here we come! LOL
ITE Concert Band was formed in the year of 2005, comprising of students with diverse musical backgrounds from the 3 ITE Colleges.
Mr Eric James Watson was appointed the Music Director of the ITE Concert Band ever since its inception.
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In 2008, ITE Concert Band participated in the Open Category for the 2nd National Band Competition (NBC) 2008
& managed to clinched the Silver Award with the total score of 79.17%
In 2009, ITE Concert Band participated in International Band Competition at Genting and they clinched the GOLD Award.
With the total score of 82% , they were named 2nd Top band for the competition.
In 2010, ITE Concert Band participated in 3rd Singapore MUSE Festival in April and managed to clinch the Silver award.
In July, ITE Concert Band participated in the Open Category for the 3rd National Band Competition (NBC) 2010 and managed to clinched the Gold with Honours award with the total score of 85.33%.
ITE Concert Band hope to strives ourselves for the local music band scene
or the international band scene in the near future.
The Music Director
Mr Eric James Watson
Born in the UK & received musical training at Trinity College of Music in London,
his principal studies being piano, violin, composition and conducting, for which he was awarded the Ricordi prize.
After graduating, he established a career as a composer and musical director.
Now domiciled in Singapore he has twice been the composer for the Singapore National Day Parade.
In 2006 he won the first prize for Chinese Orchestral Composition.
The 2010 Event
- 10 July 2010 National Band Competition
- Musica Fantasia 5