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Italian violinist Uto Ughi at CCP

Tuesday, May 25th, 2010

02 June, Wednesday | 2000
Uto Ughi in Manila
CCP Nicanor Abelardo Hall, Pasay City

Italian violinist Uto Ughi performs at the CCP as part of salutatory events mounted by the new Ambassador of Italy to the Philippines Luca Fornari and his wife. Ughi and pianist Alessandro Specchi will perform the Sonata in A major, Op. 37 “Kreutzer” of Beethoven; the Fantasia on themes from Faust by Henryk Wieniawski, Op. 20; the etude “La Campanella” by Paganini, and the Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso by Camille Saint-Saens.

The concert is open to the public; reservation is required. Attire is formal. Tickets are available through the CCP Marketing Office, 832-1125 loc. 1800. A formal dress code is applied.

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New PPO director debuts

Tuesday, April 13th, 2010

15 April, Thursday | 2000
PPO Season 09-10: Ochanine
CCP Main Theater

The new music director of the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra makes his debut in the final concert of the season. After a protracted selection process, the baton has passed to 30-year-old French-born American conductor Olivier Ochanine, who trained as a flutist before pursuing studies in orchestral conducting.

— PROGRAM —

Shostakovich: Festive Overture in A major
Massenet: Le Cid (Ballet Music)
Barber: Adagio for Strings
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 57.

The Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra (PPO) billed its 27th Concert Season 2009-2010 “The PPO Signature Series: Tour de Force Performances with 8 Maestros”, highlighting a series of guest conductors which culminates with the incoming Music Director.

For inquiries please call the CCP Marketing Department at 832-1125 loc. 1806, or the CCP Box Office 832-3704.

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1st GSIS Thursday spotlights UP Tiklado

Friday, January 29th, 2010

28 January, Thursday | 1800
UP Tiklado in Concert
GSIS Museum, Pasay

UP TIKLADO in Concert features Piano Majors from the University of the Philippines College of Music.

— PROGRAM —

Sara Matsuura
Chopin: Nocturne in B Op. 55 No 1

Josiah Samaniego
Bortkiewicz: Etude Op. 15/1 in F
Tchaikovsky: Etude Op. 41/1 in G
Arensky: Etude Op. 41/3 in E-flat

Jett Russell Panganiban
Espino: Scherzino based on “Lulay”

Valerie Villanueva
Chopin: Ballade in Ab No. 3 Op. 47

Miguel Aspiras
Rachmaninoff: Prelude Op. 32/12 in G-sharp
Prokofiev: Suggestion Diabolique

(interval)

Joel Viola
Liszt: Transcendental Etude No. 11 in D-flat “Harmonies du Soir”

Benjamin Jasmin
Espino: Recuerdo Variations

Jerome Zulueta
Ravel: Jeux d’eau

Mikhail Lastrilla
Liszt: Ballade No. 2 in B minor

Admission is free, but interested attendees are requested to RSVP through (0920) 910-2920.

UP Tiklado comprises piano majors, professors and alumni of the UP College of Music Keyboard Department.

The GSIS Thursday Concert Series is a joint project between GSIS and the Philippine High School for the Arts Alumni Association. It aims to become an established venue for professional and emerging artists to give free public concerts.

For more information on the concert, please contact Katherine de Asis at (0920) 910-2920.

Posted in 2010 January, Instrumental, Pasay | No Comments »

1st Philippine International Guitar Festival

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

January 28 to 31
1st Philippine International Guitar Festival
Cultural Center of the Philippines

For the first time in the Philippines, disciples of the guitar gather as one. Pedagogue and performer Jose Valdez is director of the Festival.

The roster of festival performers will include Steve Lin, Michael Dadap, Perfecto de Castro, Sixto Roxas, and Florante Aguilar. Groups include the Kasilag Guitar Trio, Tabs, UP Guitar Orchestra, and winners of the NAMCYA 2009 Guitar Category. The festival will also feature the Fundacion Centro Flamenco.

Master classes and lectures will be offered on a variety of topics. Talks include:
Building a Performing Career
Flamenco
A Guitarist’s Pain
Jazz Improvisation
Ensemble Playing
Musicality, Intelligence and Technique

The Festival will also feature booths and displays by luthiers and guitar manufacturers.

For more information, please contact Jose Valdez, Festival Director (0917) 5266-377, Phil Valdez (0920) 498-2720, Jenny de Vera at (0915) 921-3440 or send e-mail to visit email philguitarfest@gmail.com. Details are also available at http://philguitarfest.blogspot.com.

Posted in 2010 January, Instrumental, Mixed, Pasay, class/workshop | No Comments »

PPO Season spotlights Yatco and Tiu

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

14 January, Thursday | 2000
PPO Season 09-10: Yatco
CCP Main Theater

The Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra (PPO) presents its 27th Concert Season 2009-2010 — The PPO Signature Series: Tour de Force Performances with 8 Maestros — highlighting a series of guest conductors, and culminating in April with the incoming Music Director.

January’s featured maestro is Oscar Yatco. The concert also spotlights pianist Albert Tiu in Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 1.

— PROGRAM —

Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68
Chopin: Piano Concerto No.1 in E minor, op. 11
Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber

All concerts are at the Cultural Center of the Philippines’ Tanghalang Nicanor Abelardo (CCP Main Theater).

Please note that, this season, all concerts are on Thursday evenings, instead of Friday evenings, as has previously been the custom.

For inquiries please call the CCP Marketing Department at 832-1125 loc. 1806, or the CCP Box Office 832-3704.

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PPO Christmas

Monday, November 30th, 2009

10 December, Thursday | 2000
PPO Season 09-10: Barbieri
CCP Main Theater

The Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra (PPO) presents its 27th Concert Season 2009-2010 — The PPO Signature Series: Tour de Force Performances with 8 Maestros — highlighting a series of guest conductors, and culminating in April with the incoming Music Director.

December’s featured maestro is Ruggero Barbieri. The Christmas concert also highlights trumpeter Frideline Parin.

— PROGRAM —

Corelli: Concerto Grosso in G minor, op. 6/8 (Christmas Concerto)
Haydn: Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra in E flat Major, H. VIIe: 1
Handel: Selections from Messiah
Traditional Christmas Carols

All concerts are at the Cultural Center of the Philippines’ Tanghalang Nicanor Abelardo (CCP Main Theater).

Please note that, this season, all concerts are on Thursday evenings, instead of Friday evenings, as has previously been the custom.

For inquiries please call the CCP Marketing Department at 832-1125 loc. 1806, or the CCP Box Office 832-3704.

Posted in 2009 December, Orchestral, Pasay | No Comments »

Awit ng Gabi for Ondoy victims

Wednesday, October 21st, 2009

29 October, Thursday | 1800
Awit ng Gabi
GSIS Museum, Pasay City

The second to the last concert of the GSIS Thursday Concert Series 2009 is an Ondoy fundraiser entitled Awit ng Gabi, and features the talents of Ana Feleo (soprano), Joy Abalon Tamayo (soprano), Dondi Ong (tenor), Marvin Gayramon (baritone), and Philip Mabunga (pianist).

Admission is free. The concert venue is the GSIS Museum at the second floor of the GSIS Central Office, Macapagal Ave., Financial Center, Pasay City.

The GSIS Thursday Concert Series is a joint project between GSIS and the Philippine High School for the Arts Alumni Association. It aims to become an established venue for professional and emerging artists to give free public concerts.

For more information on the concert, interested parties may contact Jonathan Coo at (0915) 622-5883 or Katherine Asis at (0920) 910-2920.

Posted in 2009 October, Choral & Song, Pasay | No Comments »

Living Fil-Chinese composer Huang turns 100: Tribute concert at CCP

Wednesday, October 21st, 2009

31 October, Saturday | 2000
Huang Chen Mou: A Century of Service to Music
CCP Main Theater, Pasay City

Chinese International School Manila presents A Century of Service to Music featuring Filipino-Chinese composer Huang Chen-Mou, who celebrates his 100th birthday this year. The concert, conducted by Celia Yu Ong, is Saturday, October 31, 8 PM, at the Cultural Center of the Philippines, Tanghalang Nicanor Abelardo.

Featured works are the Piano Concerto, songs for tenor and soprano solos, an excerpt from the opera China Soul, and the cantata Emmanuel, Huang’s most published and admired work, on the birth of Christ. Huang Chen Mou’s first composition was written in his teen years, and was published by the Shanghai Opera House. He went on to write the operas such as Kublai Khan and compositions for piano and orchestra like the Chinese Fantasia in B flat.

Celia Yu Ong was the music director of the Echoettes and the Makati Hope Christian Academy. She she made her debut as the conductor of the joint choir of 14 choruses and a 58-piece orchestra in the Tiananmen Memorial Concert at Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall. In December 1997, she was acclaimed for her performance at Carnegie Hall, where she conducted a combined choir of international ensembles in Mozart’s Requiem.

A Century of Service to Music, featuring a 200-voice mixed choir and a 140-voice children’s choir made up of Filipino-Chinese singers —October 31, Saturday, at the CCP. Admission is free.

For details, call Angel at 710-3901 or (0922) 855-5560.

Posted in 2009 October, Choral & Song, Pasay | No Comments »

Macuja-Elizalde celebrates 25

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

* New dates. Originally October 2 to 4.

09 October, Friday | 1930
10 October, Saturday | 1930
11 October, Sunday | 1500
Lisa@25
Aliw Theater, CCP Complex

Lisa@25 is the production marking prima ballerina Lisa Macuja-Elizalde’s 25th anniversary in professional dance.

The two-hour production showcases highlights from the ballerina’s career, including never-before-seen footage of her performances in Russia, videos and still photographs taken during provincial tours. For the first time in a ballet production, a colossal Watch Out screen is being used, allowing Macuja-Elizalde and other dancers to interact with images projected on it.

Macuja was the first Filipino and foreigner to be invited to join the famed Kirov Ballet in 1984, after she graduated at the top of her class from the Leningrad Choreographic Institute.

Partial proceeds of Lisa@25 will be earmarked for Typhoon Ondoy flood victims.

For tickets to Lisa@25, please call Ballet Manila at 525-5967 or visit www.ticketworld.com.ph.

Posted in 2009 October, Ballet, Pasay | No Comments »

PPO opens 27th season with Quartuccio

Thursday, August 27th, 2009

03 September, Thursday | 2000
PPO Season 09-10: Quartuccio
CCP Main Theater

The Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra (PPO) presents its 27th Concert Season 2009-2010 — The PPO Signature Series: Tour de Force Performances with 8 Maestros — highlighting a series of guest conductors, and culminating in April with the incoming Music Director.

The Season launches on September 3 with American conductor Anthony Quartuccio.

— PROGRAM —

Antonin Dvorak: Carnival Overture, Op. 92
Antonino Buenaventura: By the Hillside
Anica Galindo: For Lambent Isles for String Orchestra
Claude Debussy: La Mer
Peter Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 in F-Minor Op. 36

All concerts are at the Cultural Center of the Philippines’ Tanghalang Nicanor Abelardo (CCP Main Theater).

Please note that, this season, all concerts are on Thursday evenings, instead of Friday evenings, as has previously been the custom.

For inquiries please call the CCP Marketing Department at 832-1125 loc. 1806, or the CCP Box Office 832-3704.

Posted in 2009 September, Orchestral, Pasay | No Comments »

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