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DIESTRO LEADS PPO IN ALL-LUCIO SAN PEDRO PROGRAM
PPO PLAYS AN ALL-LUCIO SAN PEDRO PROGRAM
National Artist for Music Lucio San Pedro’s immortal works will be featured in the sixth concert series of the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra (PPO) on February 11, 2010, 8 PM at the Cultural Center of the Philippines’ Main Theater. Guest performer is soprano Ferleoni Medina under the baton of Maestro Agripino Diestro. The concert coincides with the 97th birth anniversary of the late Maestro San Pedro.
The program consists of San Pedro’s Ang Buwan sa Kabundukan Tone Poem, Lupang Mahal ng Araw for soprano solo and orchestra, Diwata ng Pag-ibig, Suite Pastorale and Lahing Kayumanggi Symphonic Poem.
Ferleoni Medina is a graduate of Bachelor of Music in Voice Performance at the University of Sto. Tomas Conservatory of Music under Prof. Rachelle Gerodias. She is a former member and soloist of the internationally acclaimed UST Singers under the baton of Prof. Fidel G. Calalang Jr. and has been with the choir participating in five international concert tours covering Europe, the United States, Mexico and Asia. She won 1st Prize in the 2007 National Music Competition for Young Artists (NAMCYA), voice category C. She was featured as soloist at the Messiah and the Christmas Carol tradition with the PPO conducted by the acclaimed British conductor, David Wordsworth at the Folk Arts Theater in 2007. She played Sally in Johann Strauss II’s popular operetta in three acts, Die Fledermaus (The Bat) held at the CCP in 2008. Later that year, she was soloist at the TPCC Christmas Concert by The Philharmonic Chamber Choir and the Singapore Bible College Singers conducted by Wong Lai Foon at the Esplanade Concert Hall in Singapore. Medina received the 2008 Benavides Outstanding Achievement Award in UST.
Agripino "Nonoy" V. Diestro obtained his degree, major in Music Theory and Composition at the University of the
Philippines Conservatory of Music in 1990. He took up Orchestral Direction with Jean Sebastien Bereau and Ferdinand Koch at the Conservatoire National de Region de Reims, France where he earned a Gold Medal of Excellence (the highest award being given by the Conservatory) in 1991. Simultaneously, he studied Orchestral Direction (Auditeur) at the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique de Paris. In 1997, he represented the Philippines in the 45th International Competitions for Young Conductors held in Besancon, France, where he emerged as one of the top ten out of 179 candidates representing 43 countries around the world (to date, the highest place attained by a Filipino conductor in an International Orchestra Conducting Competition). He was also the Music Director and Conductor of the U.P. Chamber Orchestra from 1995-2000 and the Music Director and Principal Conductor of Angono National Symphonic Band, founded by the late San Pedro until 2006. He served as the Philippine representative to the Adjudicator’s Panel for the ASEAN Anthem Selection in Thailand on October 2008 (Elimination Rounds) and November 2008 (Finals). Diestro’s composition Purihin Si Yahweh won third place at the NAMCYA in 1983. His composition Aleluya for mixed choir is performed by choirs around the world. He is a recipient of Community Outstanding Young Achievers (COYA), awarded by the Philippine Jaycees, Inc. in 1993 and the Most Outstanding Alumni Award by the Angono Private High School Alumni Association during the celebration of its 50th Foundation Anniversary as well as the Sangguniang Bayan Award as an exemplary son of Angono in 2008. He was Resident Conductor of the PPO from September 2007 to August 2009 and is currently the President of the Angono Council for Tradition, Culture and the Arts.
For more information, please call the CCP at 832-3704/832-1125 locs. 1409/1800-1808; Ticketworld at 891-9999.
National Artist for Music Lucio San Pedro’s immortal works will be featured in the sixth concert series of the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra (PPO) on February 11, 2010, 8 PM at the Cultural Center of the Philippines’ Main Theater. Guest performer is soprano Ferleoni Medina under the baton of Maestro Agripino Diestro. The concert coincides with the 97th birth anniversary of the late Maestro San Pedro.
The program consists of San Pedro’s Ang Buwan sa Kabundukan Tone Poem, Lupang Mahal ng Araw for soprano solo and orchestra, Diwata ng Pag-ibig, Suite Pastorale and Lahing Kayumanggi Symphonic Poem.
Ferleoni Medina is a graduate of Bachelor of Music in Voice Performance at the University of Sto. Tomas Conservatory of Music under Prof. Rachelle Gerodias. She is a former member and soloist of the internationally acclaimed UST Singers under the baton of Prof. Fidel G. Calalang Jr. and has been with the choir participating in five international concert tours covering Europe, the United States, Mexico and Asia. She won 1st Prize in the 2007 National Music Competition for Young Artists (NAMCYA), voice category C. She was featured as soloist at the Messiah and the Christmas Carol tradition with the PPO conducted by the acclaimed British conductor, David Wordsworth at the Folk Arts Theater in 2007. She played Sally in Johann Strauss II’s popular operetta in three acts, Die Fledermaus (The Bat) held at the CCP in 2008. Later that year, she was soloist at the TPCC Christmas Concert by The Philharmonic Chamber Choir and the Singapore Bible College Singers conducted by Wong Lai Foon at the Esplanade Concert Hall in Singapore. Medina received the 2008 Benavides Outstanding Achievement Award in UST.Agripino "Nonoy" V. Diestro obtained his degree, major in Music Theory and Composition at the University of the
Philippines Conservatory of Music in 1990. He took up Orchestral Direction with Jean Sebastien Bereau and Ferdinand Koch at the Conservatoire National de Region de Reims, France where he earned a Gold Medal of Excellence (the highest award being given by the Conservatory) in 1991. Simultaneously, he studied Orchestral Direction (Auditeur) at the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique de Paris. In 1997, he represented the Philippines in the 45th International Competitions for Young Conductors held in Besancon, France, where he emerged as one of the top ten out of 179 candidates representing 43 countries around the world (to date, the highest place attained by a Filipino conductor in an International Orchestra Conducting Competition). He was also the Music Director and Conductor of the U.P. Chamber Orchestra from 1995-2000 and the Music Director and Principal Conductor of Angono National Symphonic Band, founded by the late San Pedro until 2006. He served as the Philippine representative to the Adjudicator’s Panel for the ASEAN Anthem Selection in Thailand on October 2008 (Elimination Rounds) and November 2008 (Finals). Diestro’s composition Purihin Si Yahweh won third place at the NAMCYA in 1983. His composition Aleluya for mixed choir is performed by choirs around the world. He is a recipient of Community Outstanding Young Achievers (COYA), awarded by the Philippine Jaycees, Inc. in 1993 and the Most Outstanding Alumni Award by the Angono Private High School Alumni Association during the celebration of its 50th Foundation Anniversary as well as the Sangguniang Bayan Award as an exemplary son of Angono in 2008. He was Resident Conductor of the PPO from September 2007 to August 2009 and is currently the President of the Angono Council for Tradition, Culture and the Arts.For more information, please call the CCP at 832-3704/832-1125 locs. 1409/1800-1808; Ticketworld at 891-9999.
