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19 Oct 2024
Earlier this year, Los Cantantes de Manila embarked on their fourth European tour, bagging prizes along the way. Among their spoils: several first prizes, and a qualification for next year’s Grand Prix for Choral Singing. Bass Jaed Aure tells us more on MAESTRO FILIPINO (1200).
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12 Oct 2024
From Beethoven to Szymanowski—award-winning German pianist Jonas Stark shares music from both ends of the Romantic period at his upcoming masterclass and recital later this month. He gives us a foretaste on MAESTRO FILIPINO (1200).
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5 Oct 2024
Guitarist Monching Carpio casts some of the most recognizable Philippine folk songs in a new light in his recently-published collection, Play Filipino. On MAESTRO FILIPINO (1200), he shares its pandemic origins and the method behind his arrangements.
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28 Sep 2024
Three years after her passing, pianist Nena del Rosario-Villanueva returns to the limelight as Dr. Alegria Ferrer shares her life and legacy on MAESTRO FILIPINO (1200) ahead of two tribute concerts. We also hear two of her recordings, and a performance by pianist Danica Antazo.
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21 Sep 2024
A new work, a new concertmaster, and a brilliant guest soloist in Shlomo Mintz—FIESTA sets the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra’s 40th concert season off to a strong start. Music director Grzegorz Nowak shares his goals for both orchestra and audience on MAESTRO FILIPINO (1200).
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14 Sep 2024
From Las Piñas’ Banda San Jose to the UP College of Music, flautist John Karlo dela Cruz shares his story, and music, on MAESTRO FILIPINO (1200).
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17 Aug 2024
Pianist George Harliono has performed all over the world. The one thing he hopes happens at every concert: that the audience enjoy the music as much as he enjoys playing it. Hear Harliono ahead of his first Manila performance, on today’s program of MAESTRO FILIPINO (1200).
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10 Aug 2024
A Carnegie Hall performance and an album of Bach’s solo sonatas and partitas are but part of violinist KayCee Galano’s list of achievements. She will soon share her music in a masterclass, and in a concert with the UP Symphony Orchestra. Hear more on MAESTRO FILIPINO (1200).
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27 Jul 2024
Violinist Chino Soberano has down roots in the US, but still regularly turns his sights back to the Philippines to give back to the communities that set him on his musical path. On a recent visit, he shared his work both here and abroad. Hear his story on MAESTRO FILIPINO (1200).
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20 Jul 2024
What hope do we have in suffering? Under the baton of guest conductor Dr. Joel Navarro, Aleron explores that question in the concert, To Where I Wait. Dr. Navarro, Karl San Jose, Kevin Maske, and Paul Ryan Arcolas share how this theme came about on MAESTRO FILIPINO (1200).
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13 Jul 2024
Ballet Philippines will make history when it mounts the first Philippine staging of the first Romantic ballet, La Sylphide. What can we expect from a ballet from the 1830s? Artistic Director Misha Martynyuk and President Kathleen Liechtenstein tell us on MAESTRO FILIPINO (1200).
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6 Jul 2024
Violinist Matias Mercurio is no stranger to long commutes, travelling from his native Quezon Province to play with the PPO and the OFY. It will be an even longer trip to play with the Asian Youth Orchestra, but one definitely worth it. Hear his story on MAESTRO FILIPINO (1200).
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22 Jun 2024
All roads lead to Vienna for Harmonies of the Heart—mounted by Hearlife Verein, and featuring soprano Isabela Madero, who will soon join the Vienna Opera Academy. Isabela and Hearlife program director Tosh Jacob-Soliven tell us about the concert on MAESTRO FILIPINO (1200).
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15 Jun 2024
Cellist, composer, and now, conductor: on MAESTRO FILIPINO (1200), Glenn Aquias, the first recipient of the Ruggero Barbieri Conducting Fellowship, shares why he set off on this new path and what it takes to wield what he describes as the heaviest instrument—the conductor’s baton
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8 Jun 2024
Alice Reyes' Carmina Burana is the crown jewel in an immense production featuring ARDP, the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra, the Philippine Madrigal Singers, the Kilyawan Boys Choir, baritone Byeong-In Park, and soprano Lara Maigue. Hear more on MAESTRO FILIPINO (1200).
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1 Jun 2024
In a few days, the UP Concert Chorus will set off on MusiKADASIG—its first European concert tour in years. Dr. Jai Sabas-Aracama, Calvin Capacete, Casey Imperial, and Marian Abio share the choir’s aspirations for the voyage, and more on MAESTRO FILIPINO (1200).
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18 May 2024
Soprano Evelyn Mandac is the first Filipino to grace New York’s Metropolitan Opera Theater. But what else do we know about her? Art historian Chiara Cox has been uncovering her achievements to discover who Evelyn Mandac truly is. They share more on MAESTRO FILIPINO (1200).
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18 May 2024
Soprano Evelyn Mandac is the first Filipino to grace New York’s Metropolitan Opera Theater. But what else do we know about her? Art historian Chiara Cox has been uncovering her achievements to discover who Evelyn Mandac truly is. They share more on MAESTRO FILIPINO (1200).
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11 May 2024
Fatal love binds the works featured in Amore Fatale. More importantly, Krissan Manikan-Tan with tenor Nomher Nival and pianist Gabriel Paguirigan explore opera works for mezzo-soprano. They share how these can be just as challenging and dazzling as any, on MAESTRO FILIPINO(1200).
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4 May 2024
Make the piece your own—that is the philosophy that helped Zildjian Viray win in last year’s Kayserburg International Youth Piano Competition, and in two categories in the recent PTGPFI piano competition. He shares his story and his music on the next MAESTRO FILIPINO (1200).
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