The Gateway Band and Orchestral Music Academy is the training arm of Gateway Music. It offers courses in musical instruments that you will find in bands and orchestras. These include the piano, brass (trumpet, trombone, bass, horn, etc), strings (violins, violas, cellos, etc), woodwind (flute, piccolo, oboe, clarinet, saxophone, etc) and percussion (drums etc) . Besides instrumental music courses, the Academy also conducts courses in vocal training (see below).
The Academy offers courses for individuals or groups and for different age groups, from children to senior, and at all levels, from beginner to advanced. These courses are taught by the highly-qualified Gateway Professional artistes who have a passion to teach music. Lesson plans are tailored to meet the needs of individual students. From time to time, the Academy will also organize group/ensemble classes as well as host special masterclasses and workshops conducted by invited artistes to provide further enrichment opportunity to those students who aspire to perform at the professional level.
Strong Support for Students’ Learning
Music lessons are conducted in our conducive, state-of-the-art, sound-proofed classrooms, each equipped with video/audio recording facilities for teachers to review the session with their students and discuss the areas that may need further practice. The students can later refer to the recording when they practise at home. This will enhance their learning process.
We realize that, quite often, students’ progress may be hampered by the lack of opportunities to practice outside the lesson hours. This could be due to a variety of reasons, such as when a beginner student does not yet have his own instrument while still deciding on what instrument he or she would really be interested to learn. On this aspect, Gateway Music has made a special arrangement with Global Music Mart to provide free loan of instruments to students (subject to availability and on a first-come-first-served basis). Its presence in the premises of the Academy provides convenience for students who need assistance in matters related to music instruments and accessories. Global Music Mart also offers a wide range of brand new as well as affordable and quality pre-owned instruments that will suit individual needs of students.
As for students who do not have a convenient place to practise their instruments, they may use the Gateway Classroom Studios at a special student concessionary rate instead of the public rate for such rentals.
Vocal Training /Singing Courses
Students will be taught and motivated on how to sing with ease and confidence, and to bring out the best of their singing voices through a range of techniques and skills training. These include breathing, pitch accuracy, tonal production, vowel placement, voice projection, widening their vocal range and performance confidence.
Courses are offered to children aged 5 years & above and adults. They may enroll in the beginner, intermediate or advance level. The courses are customized to the individual needs of the Students, such as their unique singing voice and their learning objectives.
The students may enroll for Individual lessons (duration can be 30 mins, 45 mins and 60 mins) or group lessons (duration can be 45 min, 60 mins and 90 mins)