12 October | 630 PM
Pifferari: The Shepherd’s Pipe
Alejandro Consolacion, Eudenice Palaruan, and Peter Stapleton (pipe organ)
Franz Ramirez (oboe)
Union Church of Manila, Makati City
This 94th Anniversary Concert features the music of Elgar, Bach, Brahms, Langlais, Handel, Frescobaldi, Buatehude, Rutter, Franck, and Mozart.
Admission to the concert is free. For more information, please call at 812-6062.
October 4, 5, 11 and 12 | Weekends
The Naughty Daughter
Aliw Theater, Roxas Boulevard, Pasay City
Once a upon a time there was a sweet but sassy girl called Lise who found herself torn between her handsome suitor Colas and her bossy mother Simone. Will true love stand the test even if mother knows best?
Staged by Russian choreographer Sergei Vikulov.
Starring Prima Ballerina Lisa Macuja-Elizalde.
For inquiries, call Ballet Manila at 400-0292 or 525-5967
10 October, Friday | 8PM
The Spirit of America
Adolfo Mendoza (bassoon)
The Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra/ Laura Jackson (guest conductor)
—PROGRAM—
George Gershwin: Porgy and Bess (Symphonic Pictures)
John Williams: The Five Sacred Trees
George Gershwin: An American in Paris
Leonard Bernstein: Symphonic Dances from West Side Story
The 25th Season of the PPO is Transymphonia: The World In Concert. An immersion in the music of various countries, the 25th season of the PPO will guide you around the globe in one transymphony. Eight musical explorations spanning oceans, each evening will plunge into a country’s history, landscape and people.
All PPO Season concerts are at the Tanghalang Nicanor Abelardo (CCP Main Theater).
For ticket inquiries, please call the CCP Box Office 832-3704 or Ticketworld at 891-9999.
October 09, 10, 11 | 8PM
Piaf: Love Conquers All
Naomi Emmerson (vocalist), Carmela Sinco (piano)
Francisco Santiago Hall, BDO South Tower I, HV de la Cost St cor. Makati Ave., Makati City
Musicartes Presents Piaf: Love Conquers All, a live musical drama from New York, featuring the love songs of the French songstress, Edith Piaf, and her extraordinary will to survive, to sing, to live and to love.
Directed and designed by Naomi Emmerson. Adam Blanshay (associate director), produced by MusicArtes Inc.
For tickets, call MusicArtes 895-8098 or Ticketnet, 911-5555.
25 October, Saturday & 26 October, Sunday | 8 PM
Opera Miniscola
Rachelle Gerodias (soprano), Joy Abalon Tamayo (soprano)
Lemuel dela Cruz (tenor), Ronnie Abarquez (baritone)
Rainier Pagcaliwagan (bass)
Jaime del Mundo (director)
The Metro Manila Community Orchestra/ Josefino Chino Toledo
Insular Life Theater, Alabang
—PROGRAM—
Giancarlo Menotti: The Telephone
W.A. Mozart: Der Schauspieldirektor, K. 486 (The Impresario)
The Filfest Cultural Foundation presents FILFEST 2008: A celebration of music and dance. The brainchild of Filipino concert pianist Jovianney Emmanuel Cruz, FILFEST 2008 is a season of eleven performances ranging from chamber music concerts, to solo piano recitals, to dance, to chamber orchestra concerts, and to minimalist operas.
For inquiries, send an e-mail to filfest@gmail.com, or filfest@yahoo.com.
11 October, Saturday | 8PM
Mozart’s Most
Alfonso Bolipata (violin), Jovianney Emmanuel Cruz (piano)
FILharmoniKA/Gerard Salonga
Insular Life Theater, Alabang
An all-Mozart Program. Enough said.
—PROGRAM—
Overture to the Marriage of Figaro, K. 492
Violin Concerto No. 5 in A Major, K. 219 (“Turkish”)
Piano Concerto No. 27 in B-flat Major, K. 595
Overture to The Magic Flute, K. 620
The Filfest Cultural Foundation presents FILFEST 2008: A celebration of music and dance. The brainchild of Filipino concert pianist Jovianney Emmanuel Cruz, FILFEST 2008 is a season of eleven performances ranging from chamber music concerts, to solo piano recitals, to dance, to chamber orchestra concerts, and to minimalist operas.
For inquiries, send an e-mail to filfest@gmail.com, or filfest@yahoo.com.
25 October, Saturday | 5 PM
Journey with Hope
Denise Huang (violin), Renata Lucas (cello), Carmencita Sipin Aspiras (piano)
An all-Beethoven chamber music evening intended to raise funds for the Recovery Circle Foundation Scholarship Program (helping families of those afflicted with addiction, who cannot afford regular treatment).
Program includes the “Kreutzer Sonata”, Cello Sonata No. 3 and the “Archduke” Trio by Beethoven.
Denise Huang and Renato Lucas are both principal artists of the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra and have distinguished themselves as soloists.
The MCOF invites you a series of concerts this October— Oktoberfest!
All concerts are at the Francisco Santiago Hall, BDO South Tower, de la Costa cor. Makati Ave., Makati City.
For details, call the MCO Secretariat (0920) 954-0053, or TicketWorld 891-9999.
17 October, Friday| 5 PM
Carmencita Sipin Aspiras: Concerto Concert
Carmencita Sipin Aspiras (piano), Metro Manila Community Orchestra/ Chino Toledo
Program includes the Piano Concerto No. 4 of Beethoven and the Piano Concerto No. 2 of Chopin.
Carmencita Sipin Aspiras has recorded for Austrian and German networks such as Radio Vienna, South German Radio, Radio Graz, and RIAS Berlin.
The MCOF invites you a series of concerts this October— Oktoberfest!
All concerts are at the Francisco Santiago Hall, BDO South Tower, de la Costa cor. Makati Ave., Makati City.
For details, call the MCO Secretariat (0920) 954-0053, or TicketWorld 891-9999.
05 October, Sunday | 5 PM
An Evening of French Chamber Music
Gina Medina (violin) & Mary Anne Espina (piano)
This concert takes listeners back to fin-de-siecle France. On the program are violin sonatas by Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel and Camille Saint-Saens.
Gina Medina finished her Master’s degree in music with Chamber Music Emphasis at the San Francisco State University under full scholarship. Gina started formal violin lessons with Prof. Luis Valencia and graduated Summa cum Laude at the St. Scholastica’s College of Music under Basilio Manalo. Upon graduation she was awarded a scholarship by the French government which allowed her to participate in several music festivals in France, and to study with Olivier Charlier, Dong Suk Kang, Philippe Bride and the Amadeus Quartet. She is currently concertmaster of the Manila Symphony Orchestra.
Mary Ann Espina has performed with many prominent foreign artists visiting in Manila including violinist Hagai Shaham, Alexander Tomescu and Kaori Sato. She won the ALIW Award for Best Instrumentalist last year.
The MCOF invites you a series of concerts this October— Oktoberfest!
All concerts are at the Francisco Santiago Hall, BDO South Tower, de la Costa cor. Makati Ave., Makati City.
For details, call the MCO Secretariat (0920) 954-0053, or TicketWorld 891-9999.