“2023 Macau Youth Band Summer Camp” was successfully held

More than 60 local youth students from local high schools participated in the three-day music training camp “2023 Macau Youth Band Summer Camp” on July 30, organized by the University of Macau Student Affairs Office, University of Macau Symphonic Band and Macau Band Directors Association.

The music summer camp invited outstanding local wind instrument instructors and performers to provide students with a practice system from personal to ensemble levels to enhance training efficiency and improve their performance skills. The team of instructors included Leong Pui Leong, instructing the flute, oboe and bassoon, Cheang Ka In instructing the clarinet, Loi Hon Cheong instructing the saxophone, Leong U Pan instructing the French horn, Ng Sa instructing the trumpet, Lin Teng Kun instructing the trombone, Sam Ka Lon instructing the tuba and euphonium and U Ngai Un instructing the percussion. Through team building activities and peer learning with instructors, students can personally experience the fun of playing in a wind band.

The students of the summer camp stayed in the N1-UM Guest House, during which instructors and student representatives from the University of Macau Symphonic Band served as volunteers to take care of the students’ daily lives. The students were led by UM PR Student Ambassadors to visit the Wall of Great Wisdom, one of the residential colleges, UM Gallery, and Wu Yee Sun Library, as well as the University of Macau Museum of Art led by the library tour guide, to understand the campus culture of the university and experience the strong academic and artistic atmosphere.

On the last day of the wind band summer camp, the students held a report performance and closing ceremony at UM-Student Activity Centre, sharing their learning achievements and precious memories, and had invited their parents to attend the ceremony. The local young students who participated in this summer camp came from various schools in Macau, including Escola Choi Nong Chi Tai , Kao Yip Middle School, Keang Peng School, Macau Baptist College, Our Lady of Fatima Girls’ School, Pooi To Middle School, Sacred Heart Canossian College English Section, Santa Rosa de Lima English Secondary School, School of the Nations, Sheng Kung Hui Choi Kou School (Macau) and Yuet Wah College.

The chairman of the Macau Band Association, Leung Kin Hang, stated that art can train young people’s sensory thinking, imagination, and creativity, and it should start with basic education, systematically cultivate students’ recognition of art from an early age, and cultivate critical thinking and aesthetic awareness towards things.