A massive thank you to our wonderful tutors Mr Pollock - Brass and Mr McBretney - Lower Strings!

We love having you as part of team Uddy and the pupils love coming to your lessons. 🎶😊

SLC Instrumental Music Service

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Drumroll, please! Introducing the virtuoso of the cornet, Chris Bradley! Chris can regularly be seen performing to audiences across the UK and Worldwide, in some of the finest venues!! 🎺Creative Scotland Bigger Better Brains SLC Education - CQIS #MeetTheTeam #YMusicMatters

Another top performance from the Calderglen Jazz Band at this years East Kilbride Sports Awards 👏👏👏 Calderglen High 🏳️‍🌈

Jessica, from Robert Owen Memorial Primary School, has excelled in this years Robert Burns music festival. Jessica is off to the National Finals after winning the previous two rounds. She played a medley of Scottish tunes on Saxophone.👏👏 Robert Owen Memorial Primary School and ELC SLC Education - CQIS Creative Scotland

Meet the Team

Our next superstar in the spotlight is none other than the SENSATIONAL Jazz Saxophonist, Laura Michael! 🎷 Creative Scotland SLC Education - CQIS Bigger Better Brains #MeetTheTeamCalling #YMusicMatters

We are delighted that 4 of our brass pupils have been successful in securing a coveted place in the West of Scotland Concert Band for 2024. Congratulations to Euan and Lewis Thorpe, Lucas Fish and Harry Wallace. We wish you success for the year ahead 🎺🎶👏👏

A truly fabulous, fun day of learning was brought to a close as over 50 of our young percussionists performed together for the first time. Congratulations to all of the young people that took part in a fantastic day of music making! 🎉

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The IMS team were delighted to welcome world renowned percussionist Colin Currie along to our percussion day. Colin performed many of his favourite works to our young players, and gave an inspiring insight into his practice methods 🥁

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…..and now we have the next round of workshops from our IMS Percussion day. ‘Technical workout for Drum Kit’ by Mr MacDonald, and ‘Iconic grooves and fills’, directed by Mr Payne 🥁

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Our first 2 workshops of the day are now underway! ‘Know your rudiments’ with our very own Mr Bryans, and ‘Orchestral Percussion’ with the brilliant Miss O’Malley 🥁

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Welcome back from the IMS team! Our Percussion day 2024 is underway with some warm ups with Mr Calder! We have over 50 pupils from all across SLC attending our workshops throughout the day 🥁

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Huge congratulations to our S6 superstar David for achieving an acclaimed Runner up position in SLC IMS competition with an outstanding performance of Debussy’s Arabesque 🎹👌The standard of musicianship from all our SLC young musicians is exceptional! Well done David and all👏

Forth Primary School P5s have been using Boomwhackers to learn about pitch and the notes on the stave. Their favourite mnemonic for remembering the notes on the lines is Evil Grizzly Bears Drink Fanta! 🎶 SLC Education - CQIS #YMusicMatters

The scene is set for our IMS ‘Percussion Day’ on Monday 15th April. Pupils from all across SLC will attend a fun packed day of learning, including a performance from percussion extraordinaire Colin Currie ! 🥁

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Well done P5 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Happy holidays! We are looking forward to exploring more fun musical concepts with you next term. 🎶

The woodwind pupils from Braidwood Primary School have been working extremely hard this term. Here is there musical act for the end of term Easter Assembly. Well done all!! 👏👏👏 ⁦SLC Education - CQIS⁩ ⁦Creative Scotland⁩

Sounding fantastic!! Well done Stonelaw Brass Ensemble! 👏👏👏Stonelaw High School Creative Scotland

Performing the 1st movement from the Victorian Garden Suite on Clarinet is S5 Stonelaw High School pupil Hannah. Scottish Young Musicians South Lanarkshire Council Creative Scotland Stonelaw High School #YMusicMatters

We were honoured to have SLC Chief Executive Paul Manning and Chair of SLC Education Resources Committee Councillor Lynsey Hamilton to offer the opening and closing remarks at today’s SLC Young Musician of the Year. 🙏🏼

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Finally, a huge well done to all the young performers who took to the stage today and performed so well. The hard work and dedication you have put into your performances shone through today! Bravo! 👏👏👏 Scottish Young Musicians SLC Education - CQIS South Lanarkshire Council Creative Scotland #YMusicMatters