The Hwa Chong Institution High School Band in its present state is a concert band, while also run in a military style. Thus, while there is focus on the "Indoor" aspect, the band still maintains its "Outdoor" skills. As a military band, the band not only plays concert music, but also does drills and marches. As a concert band, the band has performed numerous concerts over the years, some at Suntec City, some in the Singapore Botanic Gardens, and some in their own school. Thus, band members are fed a balanced diet of both physical, intellectual, and musical training.
The band has also performed in the White House for the President of the United States of American S. R. Nathan, taken part in the National Day Parade 2001, together with Commonwealth Secondary School Band. The band has organised many workshops with professionals, and exchange programmes with other school bands. The band has also gone to Perth in 1999, and Hawaii in 2000, for a two-week course of musical experient and training, which ended with a performance competition in which they won a gold medal. Lastly, they also participated in the bi-annual Singapore Youth Festival Central Band Judging, where they garnered a Gold in 1999 and a Gold with Honors in 2009, the highest achievable award in the SYF Band Judging. The band originally also took part in the biannual SYF Outdoor Assessment For Marching School Bands, but stopped in 2000 to focus on the symphonic aspect of the band.
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