Music

Department Goals:

To equip Yishunites with

• Basic guitar and keyboard instrumental skills
• Digital music making skills through a music curriculum using Digital Audio Workstations

Key Programmes

1. AISS Music Arrangement Programme (Sec 2s)
2. Music Masterclass
3. Aspire! NT Music Camp
4. Singapore Symphony Orchestra x Yishun Sec Performing Arts-Based Learning Pilot Programme

Artist-in-School Scheme (AISS)

This initiative by the National Arts Council (NAC) supports partnership between Singapore artists and mainstream schools. It allows schools to co-design customized arts learning experiences that deepen students’ engagement in and through the arts. Working closely with James Lye of Makor Records, students are exposed to fundamentals of popular song genres. They are also equipped with basic MIDI playing and recording skills.

Music Masterclass (Selected Sec 2s)

To further develop selected students who have passion and interest in digital music making, going into post production skills such as mixing.

ASPIRE! NT Music Camp

Annual camp to expose the Sec 3NT Music students to Live Sound stage setups as well as have a platform to hone performance accuracy and confidence.

Singapore Symphony Orchestra x Yishun Sec Performing Arts-Based Learning Pilot Programme

This year, Yishun Secondary school took on a partnership with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra (SSO) to be part of a pilot programme comprising a music workshop and attendance at an SSO concert. The purpose of this pilot programme is to aid in strengthening the local arts scene, in the SSO’s offerings for students and youth in the future.

20 selected students from the Symphonic Band, Choir, Guzheng as well as the lower secondary Music programme took part in a Music and Movement workshop to better understand the Symphony pieces before going for the concert, where they experienced the common motifs heard in the symphony through active listening, the Dalcroze method as well as through interaction with 2 SSO musicians who were also playing at the concert itself.

At the concert, the students who were part of the workshop recognised the motifs and were engaged in listening throughout the concert, enjoying classical music in a way they never did before.