Music Update: June 2022
Music is an integral part of Haitian culture. Recently, Castillo Saint Amant, our director of the SCEH-supported Deschapelles Band Academy, attended a weeklong instrument repair seminar in Gonaives, Haiti. Castillo and 17 other musicians, learned about instrument characteristics, instrument construction, parts that often need repairs, identifying what needs repairing, which tools should be used for […]
Music Update: Summer 2018
Sister Cities Essex Haiti Music Camp in Deschapelles 2018. For a second year we have wonderful teachers from Port au Prince Ecole de Musique and Philharmonic. This year the teachers are members of a Woodwind Quintet, organizied by Castillo St. Armand, Deschapelles resident who started his studies with us 5 years ago. The Quintet is […]
Music Update: July 2016
SCEH was proud to send four talented young musicians to the annual Ste. Trinité Music Camp which was held this year at Terrier Rouge, in the north of Haiti. The cost of the almost three week music camp for each musician is only $100 which covers all costs, bed and board. They were able to […]
Music Update: March 2016
Daniel Charles, a trombonist with the Ste Trinité Music School and Philharmonic in Port au Prince, responded to one of SCEH’s tweets saying he was interested in our music program. Daniel had the opportunity to study in Appleton WI at the Lawrence University Music Department and was trained to teach brass instruments. Daniel offered […]
Music Update: Summer 2015
Who would have dreamed that the first efforts of Sister Cities Essex Haiti’s music project in 2012 would result in a first-ever performance in Deschapelles of a classical chamber concert with 6 musicians from the Ecole de Musique from Ste Trinité in Port au Prince? And to a SRO very enthusiastic audience! Castillo Saint Armand, […]