At this year’s summer music workshop we were fortunate to have Elaine Mallari from the Manila Symphony Orchestra come to teach the violin on the first day. She also gave John Ericson, the Goducate Orchestra’s principal cello player, a short lesson.
The 13 students who each received a violin donated by Wolfgang Violin Studio (Singapore) earlier this year when Channel News Asia did a TV programme on the Goducate Orchestra will form our Junior String Orchestra.
Students who are not learning to play an instrument received voice training.
What we still lack are competent teachers in the viola, cello, double bass and clarinet.
