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"It's just so good here.""I came to Aberdeen City Music School just before the summer holidays last year and so far it has been amazing!""The atmosphere is really good.""Overall its a great place to come to.""I am now in my second year at Aberdeen City Music School and I have enjoyed every minute of it.""Aberdeen City Music School is just a great place to be. I've really enjoyed all the time I've spent here.""I came in my first year and I was only 12, and at first I was quite scared about leaving home, and it seemed quite a daunting prospect coming to somewhere and living with lots of other people, but as soon as I got here, it was like walking out of one home into another home and I soon settled in."
"So far its been really good, the tuition has been amazing, all the teachers are wonderful and we get to take part in all sorts of opportunities, like composing and performing and master classes."
"Our day is pretty much like a normal school day but we do a little extra music and we stay to practice at the end of the day, and then we practice in the evening."
"I really enjoy being at Aberdeen City Music School and I think its been a really great opportunity for me."
"I love being here, the family atmosphere, the friends I've made, the people I've met, Its been really good for my clarinet, and just for me as a person."
"It's been really good for my clarinet, and just for me as a person."
"I've found one of the best things here is the opportunities you get to meet professional musicians and have master classes with them."
"The music side - we've got so many chances, we have so many master classes ... great teachers who teach us ... we get for two hours a week ... its just great!"
"All the masters tutors that get brought in for all the different closed weekends and things like that, I know are just top class!"
"You get, like two hours tutoring a week and it is from the top class tutors.""One of the things that I like most about Aberdeen City Music School is the fact that teachers are so supportive. They give you praise and that helps you to notice that you are improving as you are going along, and that also boosts your confidence so you go further."
"We get pushed a lot to do a lot of work but its worth it in the end because you get what you want out of it."
"You get lots of chamber opportunities and you get to play with different instruments other than your own, so you really get to work with other instruments as well."
"All the practice rooms are sound-proofed and its a Steinway piano - which is much better than what you would ever get at home!"
"You get lots of chamber opportunities.""The tuition is just amazing.""All the teachers, I know for all the other musical instruments as well as my own, are just fantastic - and all the masters tutors that get brought in for all the different closed weekends and things like that ... I know are just top class."
"The musical side to it is just absolutely fantastic!""The tuition is second to none (and) there's master classes with some of the best people."
"It's got great performance opportunities, going from Jazz to Scottish Traditional to Classical as well - so it's great for performing."
"We get to perform in the Aberdeen Music Hall, the Aberdeen Cowdray Hall and a lot of other venues and its really good fun."
"Competitions we get to enter, like festivals of music in various places and young musician of the year competitions and these are all really good opportunities I think, for all pupils here, for their confidence and performance experience."
"There is a lot of opportunity to practice and the March concert is really good at showing everybody what is the best of ACMS."
"(Boarding) is really good because you are surrounded by everyone else who helps to push you along the way and you're being surrounded by like minded people and that also helps you to notice that your improving and for me ... that's the main thing that I enjoy most."
"Being surrounded by like minded people also helps you to notice that you're improving ... and for me ... that's the main thing that I enjoy most."
"Everyone bonds so well.""When we come to school you can tell that we all get on so well.""... its like a big family"""Boarding - it's a really nice homely atmosphere, it's basically like home from home so it's really good.""The time I've spent boarding has just been amazing. It's just like staying with 30 of your closest friends, it's just like one big family!"
"The halls of residence, the boarding, provide really good accommodation. We each get our own room, and there is a common room and it's a really good atmosphere ... family atmosphere"
"We have study time, and then we have spare time which is normally loads of fun, and we just sit around and talk and stuff, and it's great!"
"I never had any brothers or sisters but suddenly I'd thirty other brothers and of sisters and if there is ever a problem or anybody ever feels scared or homesick then there is always other people around and everybody is really supportive."
Last Modified : 24/11/2011