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In
Music
Ipinasa ni:
Jericho C. Castillo
Student
Ipapasa kay:
Immanuel Navarro Marcon
Teacher

Antonio Beunaventura

Antonio Buenaventura also known as Colonel Antonio Buenaventura, was born on 4 May
1904 in Baliuag, Bulacan. He inherited his interest in music and military from his father,
Lucino Buenaventura. He was born to a family of musicians and actively involved in the
band. He had formal music lessons in Solfeggio when he was in grade IV. He learned
how the band instruments sounded through observation and experimentation. He
organized a seven piece school orchestra, a children's group in his school. In 1922, he
composed two pieces, a march and a foxtrot entitled "Only You". He was admitted as
clarinetist to the University of the Philippines Symphony Orchestra. He was a student in
composition and conducting and the captain of cadet corps of the university when he
organized the first student orchestra, the UP Junior Orchestra. After he completed his
Teacher's Diploma in Composition and Conducting in the University of the Philippines
(UP), he was appointed faculty member of the Conservatory of Music. He was the UP
President's Committee on Folksongs and Dances when he composed the "Pandanggo sa
Ilaw", a dance accompaniment. In 1937, he was commissioned to the military service
where he became a music instructor and band conductor at the Philippine Military
Academy in Baguio City in 1939. He was also appointed as the assistant conductor of the
Manila Symphony Orchestra. He was designated the 'Municipal Symphony Orchestra's
co-conductor and toured in Hongkong, Japan, Guam, and Hawaii in 1948. He also
organized the University of the East Student Orchestra. In his compositions, he tries to
capture the Filipino spirit as a whole. He also composed short piano pieces to full-length
ballets.

Lucio San Pedro

Lucio San Pedro came from a family with musical roots and he began his career early.
When he was still in his late teens, he succeeded his deceased grandfather as the local
church organist. By then, he had already composed songs, hymns and two complete
masses for voices and orchestra. After studying with several prominent musicians in the
Philippines, he took advanced composition training with Bernard Wagenaar of the
Netherlands. He also studied harmony and orchestration under Vittorio Giannini and
took classes at Juilliard in 1947. His other vocation was teaching. He has taught at the
Ateneo de Manila University, virtually all the major music conservatories in
Manila[citation needed], and at the College of Music of the University of the Philippines,
Diliman, where he retired as a full professor in 1978. He later received the title Professor
Emeritus from the University in 1979.[citation needed] He also became a faculty member
of the Centro Escolar University Conservatory of Music in Manila.

Francisco Santiago

Francisco Santiago (January 29, 1889 September 28, 1947), was a Filipino musician,
sometimes called The Father of Kundiman Art Song. Santiago was born in Santa Maria,
Bulacan, Philippines, to musically-minded peasant parents, Felipe Santiago and Maria
Santiago. In 1908, his first composition, Purita, was dedicated to the first Carnival
Queen, Pura Villanueva, who later married the distinguished scholar Teodoro Kalaw.
Santiago's masterpiece was the "Concerto in B flat minor" for pianoforte and orchestra
and his most famous piece "Kundiman, (Anak-Dalita)". His other compositions are the
kundiman "Sakali Man", "Hibik ng Filipinas", "Pakiusap", "Ang Pag-ibig", "Suyuan",
"Alaala Kita", "Ikaw at Ako", "Ano Kaya ang Kapalaran?", "Hatol Hari Kaya?",
"Sakali't Mamatay", "Dalit ng Pag-ibig", "Aking Bituin", "Madaling Araw" and
"Pagsikat ng Araw". He was named UP Emeritus Professor of Piano, on May 25, 1946.
When the University of the Philippines Conservatory of Music was celebrating its 30th
anniversary, the patriotic musician died of a heart attack. He was buried at the North
Cemetery, Manila. A hall in the Head Office of BDO( former PCIBank Twin Towers) was
named in his honor as the Francisco Santiago Hall. It was mainly used for kundiman
contests of the Makati City Government and the awarding of Service Awards of the
former Equitable PCIBank and PCIBank.

Nicanor Abelardo

Nicanor Abelardo was born in San Miguel de Mayumo, Bulacan. His mother belonged to
a family of artists in Guagua, the Hensons. He was introduced to music when he was five
years old, when his father taught him the solfeggio and the banduria. At the age of 8, he
was able to compose his estoryahe first work, a waltz entitled "Ang Unang Buko," which
was dedicated to his grandmother. At the age of 13, he was already playing at saloons
and cabarets in Manila. At age 15, he was already teaching in barrio schools in San
Ildefonso and San Miguel Bulacan. All of these happened even before young Abelardo
finally took up courses under Guy F. Harrison and Robert Schofield at the UP
Conservatory of Music in 1916. By 1924, following a teachers certificate in science and
composition received in 1921, he was appointed head of the composition department at
the Conservatory. Years later, he ran a boarding school for young musicians, and among
his students were National Artist Antonino Buenaventura, Alfredo Lozano and Lucino
Sacramento. In the field of composition he is known for his redefinition of the kundiman,
bringing the genre to art-song status. Among his works were "Nasaan Ka Irog,"
"Magbalik Ka Hirang," and "Himutok." He died in 1934 at the age of 41, leaving a
collection of more than 140 works.[1] As a composition major at the University of the
Philippines, he also composed the melody for the university's official anthem, U.P.
Naming Mahal.