Fife Council Music Service offering instrumental instruction and Youth Music Initiative projects in schools. Account moderated during the day, week, and term.
Hello everyone, welcome to the Twitter feed for Fife Music Service, where you will find updates on all musical activities led by the Instrumental Music Service and Youth Music Initiative!
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Our young musicians can't wait for the Area Group concerts next Saturday at 12 noon in Queen Anne HS, Balwearie HS & Bell Baxter HS. Our combined West Area Wind Band & String Orchestra are rehearsing their joint piece - what a sound!
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#ensembleplaying
#teamwork
Wishing Robbie Dowall, S5 from
@WoodmillHigh
the very best of luck tomorrow when he performs in the
@SYMusicians
national final, representing Fife. Tomorrow is a big day for Instrumental Music in Scotland & we are delighted that Robbie will be our representative!
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We are delighted to share the first of our Virtual Performances featuring the young musicians of
@FifeCouncil
today we are showcasing our Senior Wind Band! 😀🎶🎷🎺📯
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What a wonderful evening of live music from Fife Youth Orchestra. Our first concert since 2019. Bravo to all our young musicians and a massive thank you to our audience for joining us on such a stormy night!
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Rehearsal number 1 for Fife Youth Orchestra 2022/23 is well underway. It's great to see so many of Fife's young musicians getting together to make make music and making an excellent sound already!
#bravo
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What a BRILLIANT day!! 3 concerts, all running at the same time in West, Central and East Fife. 100s of young musicians performing to large audiences. Wonderful music performed by wonderful young musicians, supported by our fantastic team of Music Instructors!
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Here it is, Robbie's winning performance. We can't wait to see Robbie represent Fife at the national final in May. Congratulations, Robbie and thanks to all participants - the standard was very high, bravo to all!
@MusicWoodmill
@WoodmillHigh
@carrielnds
What a fantastic week! Thanks to our young people, instructors and schools for working hard to make the lessons happen again. Instructors were delighted to see and hear the young musicians!
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Fife Schools' Wind Band & Fife Schools' String Orchestra rehearsing for next week's concert. They are sounding great. It's wonderful to have so much music-making happening in Fife!
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It's great to have Fife Schools' String Orchestra and Fife Schools' Wind Band back rehearsing this week, their 1st rehearsal in preparation for their concert in March. Sounding great already! 🎶👏
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Today, we rehearsed for our Instructor Concerts, which take place 5th-7th of June. Details have been shared with all primary schools, hopento see you there!
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Fife Youth Orchestra Brass Ensemble are taking part in tonight's NHS staff choir concert in Torbain Church. Here is some rehearsal footage (Christmas jumpers included)
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#ChristmasMusic
#brassensemble
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It's Saturday morning at Gartmore and the Orchestra have had a busy day already, including working on Tchaikowsky's Swan Lake with Mr. Dowall and the instructor team! 🎶🎶
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#fyo2223
We can't wait to see our young people from this week. All instrumental music lessons resume in school from tomorrow. Brass, woodwind and piping pupils should contact their music department or instructor for more information.
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The Festival concluded this evening with our Young Musician of 2023 being awarded to Robbie Dowall from
@WoodmillHigh
! Congratulations to all of the young people for such fantastic performances this evening and many thanks to our Friends and Supporters
@FifeMusic
@MusicWoodmill
Fife Youth Orchestra has had a great rehearsal weekend. We are about to have an informal concert for family and friends. This has been an opportunity to say farewell to our some of our senior musicians, for friends to reunite from across Fife and to get to know new members! 😀🎶
Our instructors have absolutely loved being back in school this week and seeing our young musicians again. We're going to rest up and get ready to go again on Monday! 😀🎶
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We are delighted to welcome the
@benedetti_fdtn
to Fife this week for their residency sessions, visiting primary schools, working with our Strings Instructors and culminating in a P7/S1 Strings play day on Friday!
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After a delay of 2 years, we are underway with our day of Fife Youth Brass, in partnership with
@StAndrewsMusic
#StAMP
programme. We are all delighted to be here!
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Today, we have six of our youngest groups performing across Fife in Dunfermline, Kirkcaldy and Cupar - 3 concerts at the same time. We can't wait to hear all of the young musicians, many of whom will be performing with their groups for the first time! 😀🎶
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Today, we are thrilled to share today's Virtual Performance with you all. Our Folk Group had a great time putting this together. Thank you to
@SKERRYVORE
for permission to use the track 🏴
@carrielnds
@FifeCouncil
Wishing all our young musicians, instructors, schools, council colleagues, families and partner organisations a peaceful holiday. Merry Christmas and a Happy and Healthy New Year! 🧑🎄🌲🎶
We'd like to wish all our pupils, families, staff and schools a well deserved and relaxing summer holiday. We're looking forward to seeing what 2021/22 brings!
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So good to see school bands re-starting in Fife. Our young people haven't had the chance to experience 'in-person' ensemble playing for 18 months! 😀🎶
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What a great day we've had today with our Saturday Area Groups resuming across our West, Central & East centres for the 2022/23 session. It was great to see some returning faces and welcome some new young musicians to our ensemble programme! 🎶🎶
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#areagroups
We are delighted you enjoyed yesterday's Virtual Performance. Today we showcase the talents of our Junior String Orchestra. These young musicians have have worked so hard through lockdown - bravo to all!
@FifeCouncil
@carrielnds
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Fife Youth Concert Band and Fife Youth Sinfonia spent time on Friday evening and Saturday rehearsing ahead of next session. They held an informal concert for parents/carers this afternoon when they were being collected. A great weekend of rehearsals!
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Today we are thrilled to showcase our Soul Band. This band have never played together in person, maybe one day that can happen! Bravo to all our young musicians! 😀🎶👏
@carrielnds
@FifeCouncil
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Some action shots from tonight's FYO residential rehearsals. Fantastic sounds which we can't wait to share with our audience on Wednesday night!
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#fyo2223
Today
@FifeCouncil
we are delighted to showcase our Senior String Orchestra in the last of our Virtual Performances. Thank you to all for your support and encouragement of our young musicians
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@carrielnds
Happy holiday weekend to all our young people, families, instructors and friends!
Remember, music is great for relaxing and maintaining positive wellbeing
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Very proud of our young people who represented IHS and performed at the Fife Youth Orchestra Concert this week - brilliant effort! We hope that you have taken lots away from the rehearsals, the residential and the final performance. Keep making music 🎶🤩
@IHSupdates
@FifeMusic
The busy week of music continues in Fife. Tonight and tomorrow, Fife Youth Sinfonia & Fife Youth Concert Band are meeting for their summer taster rehearsals! 🎶🎶
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A fantastic number of young people have signed up to participate in our Virtual Performances. We can't wait wait to share these with you in June! 😀🎶
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Mr. Hardy and Mrs. Randall putting Fife Youth Concert Band & Fife Youth Sinfonia through their paces during the final rehearsal before we set off on Wednesday's residential! 🎶
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A wonderful day with our SYM adjudicators, John Wallace and Shonagh Stevenson. Here they are announcing our winner and runners up. Congratulations to all participants!
@SYMusicians
@HIT_Scotland
@carrielnds
Today Room 10 used body percussion to respond to composer Edvard Grieg's "In the Hall of the Mountain King". It required a lot of concentration! Clapping, clicking, stamping... It was lots of fun! 🎼
@FifeMusic
Wishing all of our young musicians, instructors, schools, partners, colleagues and friends a happy and prosperous New Year. We're looking forward to an exciting 2024!
#HNY
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LHS pipe band were delighted to take 3rd prize today at the prestigious George Watson’s College invitational contest. Congrats to all other prizewinners! 🏅
We've loved getting round all our schools again this week seeing our young musicians and offering the the chance to learn an instrument to children in our primary schools! 2022/23 is going to be an exciting year!
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From tomorrow it's
#timetoplaymusic
in Fife! We can't wait to see our young musicians! Lessons are taking place in school, instructors have been posting on Teams to make contact with our musicians. 😀🎶
A great morning of music making from our primary schools this morning. It's great to have Fife Festival of Music back after an enforced break!
#FFoM
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We are delighted to share the the 1st of our Spring Concerts. Today, we are featuring the Fife Schools' Wind Band. Bravo to all our young musicians and thanks to all of our IMS staff. Thanks also to the staff and students of
@fifecollege
Congratulations to the
@LochgellyHS
Pipe Band. A tremendous achievement. The young people and the staff have worked so hard for this. Very well deserved! 👏🏴🎶
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Lochgelly High School Pipe Band - 2023 United Kingdom CHAMPIONS! We are so proud of our pupils. We learned the results on the ferry home - what a reaction! 🏆🏆🏆🤩🤩🤩