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Music lovers are in for two Sundays of sheer musical delight when
the Piano Teachers’ Guild of the Philippines (PTGP) and Philamlife
present the annual piano festival at the Philamlife Auditorium today
and on March 2 from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. The marathon concert is
open to the public.
Dubbed “Pista ng Musikang Pilipino,” the
18th piano festival will feature 300 young piano masters who passed
auditions held at the University of the Philippines College of
Music, the University of Santo Tomas Conservatory of Music, St.
Scholastica’s College of Music, the Adventist University of the
Philippines, and Greenhills Music Studio. Also participating are 52
piano teachers.
“We are happy to note that the festival has
grown from more than a hundred participants to over 300 this year.
Some of the participants are winners of the National Music
Competition for Young Artists (NAMCYA) and past PTGP
competitions,” PTGP Festival Chairman Anthony Y. Say said.
Darren Elias Matias (Category C 1st prize winner
of the PTGP 2005 Sonata and Sonatina Competition, Category C Prize
Winner of the 2007 PTGP-Philamlife Bach Competion, and Category C
2nd Prize winner of the recently concluded NAMCYA), will perform a
two-piano number with Charisse Dumlao (also a prize winner of the
PTGP-Philamlife 2007 Bach Competition): Dance Macabre by
Saint-Saens-Franz Liszt.
Joining the roster of performers is another
achiever, 11-year-old Denise Faith L. See who will render Franz
Schubert’s Impromptu in A-Flat Major Op. 90 No. 4. See was
Category A1 2nd prize winner of the 2004 NAMCYA. Category A2 2nd
prize winner of the PTGP 2005 Sonata and Sonatina Competition,
Category A2 2nd prize winner of the PTGP-Philamlife 2007 Bach
Competition.
Felix Mendelssohn’s Rondo Capriccioso Op. 14
will be played by Franco Lorenzo Liwanag, a two-time PTGP
Competition Prize winner. Hannah Lyn B. Tan (Category A2 2nd
prize winner of the 2001 NAMCYA and Category B 1st prize winner of
the recently concluded PTGP-Philamlife Bach Competition), will play
Scherzo No. 2 by Frederick Chopin.
Pieces by famous Filipino artists Francisco
Buencamino, Felipe De Leon, Lucio San Pedro, Antonio Molina, Lucino
Sacramento, as well as concertos will also be played in the
festival.
A much-awaited event for piano teachers and
their students, the annual piano festival used to be held in various
locations until three years ago when PTGP President Father Manuel
Maramba, OSB, partnered with Philippine American Life and General
Insurance Company, Inc.’s Ariel Del Mundo.
For inquiries, please call Mr. Anthony Say at
(02)743-0491, 0917-814-4376.
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