CPT MUHAMAD YUSRI B. MD ALI BA(MUS) LLCM, LRSM RMSM
www.muhamadyusri.net
CPT Muhamad Yusri B. Md Ali, enlisted into military service in Dec 1993. He studied trumpet with Ms Chan Peck Suan and Mr Peck Sin Chuan. He received the Licentiate Diploma for Trumpet Performance from the London College of Music in 1996. He also became the first trumpeter to represent Singapore at the Asian Youth Orchestra Camp and Tour 1996. During the camp, CPT Yusri studied trumpet with Professor Edmund Cord from Indiana University (US) and played under the direction of the late Maestro Sergiu Commissiona.
In 1997, he was selected to attend the UK Bandmaster Course at the Royal Military School of Music, Kneller Hall in Twickenham. While he was there, he studied conducting with MAJ (Ret) Roger Swift and Lt. Col Stuwart Watts who was then the Principal Director of Music of the British Army. In the final year examinations & competitions, CPT Yusri won the Principal Director of Music Prize for Conducting and the Graham Wallace Prize for the Best Overseas Student Bandmaster. CPT Yusri graduated with a BA (Mus) awarded by Kingston University. Upon returning to Singapore, CPT Yusri was appointed the Director of Music of SAF Band B.
Since his return, CPT Yusri has attended conducting masterclasses with Hardy Mertens (NL), Timothy Reynish (UK), Mick Dowrick (UK), Robert Ponto (US), Stephen Peterson (US), Mallory Thompson (US), Douglas Bostock (GB), James W. McRoy (US), and Shuichi Komiyama (US).
In Jul 2005, CPT Yusri became the first Singaporean to reach the finals at the 10th International Conducting Contest at the World Music Contest in Holland where he eventually won the Bronze Baton.
CPT Yusri is currently the Director of Music of the SAF Central Band and also concurrently the Chief Instructor of the SAF Bands Training Wing. He is also the conductor of Innova Junior College Band.
