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National School aims at new generation of musicians/ music educators

Mar 21, 2019 News

To ensure Guyana receives international recognition in the areas of music and the arts, the National School of Music will be embarking on an initiative geared at preparing a new generation of musicians/music educators. This is according to the music school’s Administrator, Andrew Tyndall.
Tyndall indicated during an interview with this publication, that the initiative, which will commence in just over a week, will ensure that Guyanese music takes its rightful place in the international forefront. He said local music many times struggles to go places due to the fact that musicians are not certified, or do not possess the relative experience to produce music of good quality.
He added that to allow Guyana to creditably compete in the ever-expanding world of music, the administration of the music school will be staging several certified programmes and courses to adequately train musicians in the correct use of instruments, musical arrangement, production, and other areas related to ensure an exquisitely finished product.
Courses will be offered at the levels of Intermediate, Advanced and Diploma stages.
He said ever so often, producers do not realize the damage they cause to the music fraternity by allowing to be distributed, poor samples of what the actual finished product should have been. He explained that all courses to be offered will be new introductions to their repertoire, and areas to be targeted will include correct management and use of the saxophone, trombone, electronically-powered acoustic, base guitars, among other instruments.
Tyndall emphasized that promoting good quality Guyanese music can also do wonders for tourism, which is also another reason for the imminent venture.
“With Guyana expecting a reasonable boom in tourism coming from the oil economy, it is evident that tourists will be visiting in much larger numbers. It will be only fitting that they be entertained with proper music of excellent quality. This will allow us to create a forum for employment for our many musicians when that time would have arrived. In the long run this can also lessen the reasons for local promoters/producers having to solicit foreign entertainment to be showcased on our shores.”
A venture of this nature was done in 2018, according to Tyndall, and was funded by the Basic Needs Trust Fund of the Ministry of Finance.
The National School of Music was established in 2011, and managed by the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport. It was projected to be a base of music development and an important component of the nation’s overall traditions.
Located at Brickdam and Old College Road, Georgetown, the school houses six classrooms, a performance auditorium, a steel band studio, and storage room to hold musical instruments and related equipment.

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