Music in You UPH: Discovering High School Students’ Talent and Interest in Music

Do you like to listen to music? Or maybe, making music? Or maybe both? Alphonse de Lamartine said that music is the literature of the heart because it commences where speech ends. Music is supposed to be learned professionally, however, in reality there has not been many education institutions in Indonesia that has music as its study program. Nevertheless, Universitas Pelita Harapan has shown extra attention about this since 2000 when Conservatory of Music (CoM) was established. UPH’s consistency in music education has been proven from time to time by producing critical and innovative musicians.

In order to introduce music education to High School student, Conservatory of Music UPH, together with the Marketing and Admission Department of UPH, held Music in You, a workshop that was held on April 5, 2019 in the HOPE Building, UPH, Lippo Village.

Music in You is a workshop held for High School students who are interested in learning music. This workshop aims to provide students with the opportunity to learn music through 12 workshop that are available. These workshops were facilitated directly by CoM lecturers and senior students of CoM UPH who have gained numerous experiences.

This workshop, with 150 students participating from 13 different schools from Bandung, Jakarta, and Tangerang, was divided into 2 kinds; Instrument for Classical (Piano, Gitar, Biola, Cello, Flute, Trumpet, Vocal) and Instrument for Jazz and Pop (Piano, Guitar, Bass, Drum, Vocal). Each student could choose one out of these 12 workshops to get brief introduction to music theories and direct practice with CoM lecturers for about two hours.

According to Antonius Sugeng Priyanto, S.Ag., B.C.M., M.Mus., Dean of UPH Conservatory of Music, this introduction is important for students who wants to study music in the future.