Music Department hosted a Brass Band Workshop




The Music Department hosted a Brass Band Workshop
during the long weekend of 2nd to 4th March 2024. The
workshop was facilitated by 6 expert musicians from Malawi Police and Salvation
Army Brass Bands, and coordinated by the Kamuzu Academy Director of Music, Mr.
Donald Kaluwile. Participants to this
workshop were 26 Kamuzu Academy students, most of them complete beginners.
The training went on very smoothly and the students
really enjoyed every moment of their new musical experience. They learnt the basic scales, arpeggios and a
few beginner music pieces on various woodwind and brass instruments namely
flutes, clarinets, saxophones, trumpets, trombones, euphonium and tuba. The
objective of the workshop was to train more students in order to join the
orchestra, where their tender skills shall be nurtured and developed further
for concert performances. We also hope to have a larger marching band.
We would like to thank the Headmaster for allowing
the workshop to take place and the Deputy headmasters for their support. The
support staff had also been extremely cooperative especially the Catering
Department, which had been preparing nice refreshments to keep the energy
levels high as blowing of instruments tend to be so exhausting. The parents/guardians
too played a great role by supporting their wards financially to attend the
workshop and some of them purchased the musical instruments for their wards. We would also like to thank the students
themselves for their discipline and hard work during the workshop and the
facilitators for tireless effort to impart the young students with so much
musical knowledge. With all these coordinated efforts and teamwork, we are sure
to have a bigger brass band section of the orchestra, and a spectacle of a
massive matching band on Prize-giving and Founder’s Day Functions.
Donald Kaluwile
Director of Music
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