Antonino R.

Buenaventura

Baliuag, Bulacan

May 4, 1904- January 25, 1996

Lucino Buenaventura and Leocadia Ramirez

family of fine musicians

Teacher's Diploma in Music, major in Science and Composition in 1929

U.P Conservatory as an assistant instructor.

https://www.bulacan.gov.ph/generalinfo/artist.php?id=7

Lucrecia R. Kasilag

San Fernando, La Union

August 31, 1918-August 16, 2008

Marcial Kasilag Sr. and Asuncion Roces

valedictorian Bachelor of Arts degree in English at the Philippine Women's University (PWU)

Music Teacher's degree from St. Scholastica's College of Music in 1939

Master of Music degree, major in theory and minor in composition at the Eastman School of Music,
University of Rochester in New York

honorary doctorate degrees by the Centro Escolar University, the Philippine Women's University and the
St. John University, New York in 1981.

began composing during World War II

Lucio San Pedro

Angono, Rizal

February 11, 1913-March 31, 2002 cardiac arrest

Angono, Rizal

studies harmony and orchestration under Vittorio Giannini and took classes in Juilliard in 1947

advanced composition training with Bernard Wagenaar of the Netherlands.

composer, conductor and teacher, National Artist of the Philippines for Music in 1991.

married Gertrudes San Pedro with whom he had five children: Rhodora, Bienvenido, Mar¡a Conchita,
Mar¡a Cristina and Lucio, Jr.
https://www.revolvy.com/page/Lucio-San-Pedro

Levi Celerio

Tondo, Manila

April 30, 1910-Apr 02, 2002

Cornelio Cruz and Juliana Celerio

1997, he was named National Artist of the Philippines for Music.

4 children with the late Levi Celerio, namely Leon Honorato Celerio, Cornelio Vic Celerio, Enrico (Eric)
Celerio and Levita Celerio Schargel.

Wife Lina

http://aralingpinoy.blogspot.com/2009/05/levi-celerio.html

Guinness Book of World Records

ree education to the Academy of Music in Manila

Antonio J. Molina

December 26, 1894- January 29, 1980

Quiapo, Manila

Simeona Naguiat and Juan Molina

dean of Filipino composers,"

versatile musician, composer, music educator who elevated music beyond the realm of folk music

laying the violoncello

attended the Escuela Catolica de Nuestro Padre Jesus Nazareno in Quiapo, Manila, and college at San
Juan De Letran where he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1909.

https://www.revolvy.com/page/Antonio-Molina-(composer)

Jose M. Maceda

January 31, 1917-May 5, 2004

Maria Maceda and Sime¢n Villa

ethnomusicologist, and National Artist for Music (1997), was born in Manila.
music diploma at the Academy of Music of Manila in 1935 before he was sent to Paris, France where he
studied piano. musicology at Columbia University, anthropology at Northwestern University, and PHD
ethnomusicology at University of California.

https://kahimyang.com/kauswagan/articles/908/today-in-philippine-history-january-31-1917-jose-m-
maceda-was-born-in-manila

Jovita Fuentes

February 15, 1895-August 7, 1978

Canuto and Dolores Fuentes

First Lady of Philippine Music

Roxas City, Capiz

college at the University of the Philippines Conservatory of Music (1917)

Ernani J. Cuenco

May 10, 1936 – June 11, 1988

Malolos, Bulacan

Felix Cuenco

Maria Joson

completed a music degree in piano and cello from the University of Santo Tomas where he also taught
for decades. Conservatory of Music and obtained a master’s degree in the same field from Santa Isabel
College

Dr. Francisco F. Feliciano

February 19, 1941- 19 September 2014

Morong, Rizal, Philippines

Maximiano Feliciano and Julia Espiritu (Francisco)

Bachelor of Music degree in Composition from the University of the Philippines in 1967. Five years later
he earned his Master of Music degree in Music Composition from the same university. n 1977, Francisko
was given a Diploma in Music Composition from Berlin University of the Arts. In addition, in 1978, he
received a Master of Musical Arts degree and a Doctorate in Musical Arts in 1984 from Yale University.

married Rebecca Dionisio (Herrera) Feliciano.

Julette-Marie Feliciano - neurologist

child:

Jan Joseph Feliciano

https://prabook.com/web/francisco.feliciano/262291

Ramon Pagayon Santos

February 25, 1941

Amada Pagayon, Jose Santos

Bachelor of Music Composition and Conducting from University of the Philippines Conservatory of Music
in 1965, his Master of Music with distinction from Indiana University in 1969, and his Doctor of
Philosophy from State University of New York at Buffalo in 1972. He was also a student in summer
courses in New Music at Darmstadt in 1974 and in Special Seminars in Ethnomusicology at the University
of Illinois in 1989.

LITERATURE:

Amado V. Hernandez

Juan Hernandez

MOTHER: Clara Vera

Honorata "Atang" de la Rama

September 13, 1903

DiedMarch 24, 1970

born in Hagonoy, Bulacan but grew up Tondo, Manila

studied at the Manila High School and at the American Correspondence School.

Jose Garcia Villa

Manila, Philippines, on August 5, 1914- February 7, 1997, from complications of pneumonia and stroke.

Simeon Villa, Guia Garcia

Rosemarie Lamb

Randall and Lance

University of the Philippines in 1929. He first studied medicine, and then switched to law, but he was
always interested in writing, and as a law student he wrote short stories and poetry
He enrolled in the University of New Mexico, earning a B.A. degree in 1933

Villa attended Columbia University for graduate study in 1942.

https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/villa-jose-garcia

Nicomedes Marquez Joaquin

May 4, 1917, Paco, Manila, Phil.—died April 29, 2004, San Juan, Phil.

Leocadio Joaquin, Salome Mrquez

He had attended Pacò Elementary School and had three years of secondary education in Mapa High
School but was too intellectually restless to be confined in a classroom. Among other changes, he was
unable to pursue the religious vocation that his strictly Catholic family had envisioned to be his future.
Joaquín himself confessed that he always had the vocation for the religious life and would have entered
a seminary if it were not for his father’s death.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Nick-Joaquin

Carlos Peña Romulo

born within the Spanish walled city of Intramuros, Manila, on January 14, 1898- December 15, 1985,
Manila. grew up in the town of Camiling in the province of Tarlac

Gregorio Maria Cabrera Peña

3rd – 4th year, Manila High School 1914 – 1916 Intramuros

BACHELOR OF ARTS 1916 – 1918

Liberal Arts and Sciences

University of the Philippines

MASTER OF ARTS 1919 – 1921

Philosophy

Columbia University

Virginia Llamas

http://carlospromulo.org/bio/curriculum-vitae/

(Zacarias Eugene Francisco Quino Arcellana

September 6, 1916 – August 1, 2002

Sta. Cruz, Manila.

Jose Arcellana y Cabaneiro and Epifanio Quino

Emerenciana Yuvienco

In 1932 Arcellana entered the University of the Philippines (UP) as a pre-medicine student and
graduated in 1939 with a bachelor of philosophy in degree.

The University of the Philippines conferred upon Arcellana a doctorate in humane letters, honoris causa
in 1989.

Néstor Vicente Madali González

September 8, 1915-November 28, 1999

Vicente Gonzales and Pastora madali

Narita Manuel Gonzalez

Selma Gonzalez-Cortes

Nestor Ibarra

Lakshmi Gonzalez-Yokoyama

Michael Gonzalez

Romblon, Philippines raised in Calapan City, the capital of the Philippine province of Oriental Mindoro.

González attended Mindoro High School (now Jose J. Leido Jr. Memorial National High School) from
1927 to 1930. González attended college at National University (Manila) but he was unable to finish his
undergraduate degree. González attended creative writing classes under Wallace Stegner and Katherine
Anne Porter at Stanford University. On 14 April 1987, the University of the Philippines conferred on
N.V.M. González the degree of Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa

Carlos Felix Lozada Quirino

January 14, 1910 – May 20, 1999

Manila, Metro Manila, Philippines

Peggy Dawson, isang Americana, ikalawa kay Nena Bowen, at pinakahuli kay Liesl Commans

(Cory, Carlitos, Cecil, Denden, Caloy, at Ritchie.)

Dr. Jose Felix Arcinas Quirino and Dolores S. Lozada

De la Salle and Bachelor of Arts in Journalism at the University of Wisconsin

https://philippineculturaleducation.com.ph/quirino-carlos/
Virgilio S. Almario

9 March 1944

Ricardo almario, Feliciana Senadren

Emeliana Soriano (Asa Victoria, Ani Rosa, Agno Virgilio)

Bulacan

A. B. Political Science at the University of the Philippines and his life as a poet started when he took
master’s course in education at the University of the East

M. A. in Filipino in 1974 in the University of the Philippines, in 2003

Alejandro Reyes Roces

July 13, 1924 in Manila, Philippines- 23 May 2011

Rafael Gonzlez Roces and Inocencia Batista (Reyes) Roces.

Irene Yorston Viola (Elizabeth Roces)

elementary and high school at the Ateneo de Manila University

Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Arizona State University. He was given a Master of Arts degree from
Far Eastern University. Also Alejandro was given an honorary doctorates from Tokyo University, Baguio's
St. Louis University, Polytechnic University of the Philippines and the Ateneo de Manila University.

Bienvenido Lumbera

April 11, 1932 in the humble town of Lipa, Batangas

Timoteo Lumbera, Carmen Lumbera

Prof. Cynthia Nograles-Lumbera.

M.A degrees at the University of Santo Tomas in 1950 and later pursued his Ph.D in Comparative
Literature at Indiana University in 1968.

Lazaro Francisco

Eulogio Francisco and Clara Angeles

Trinidad Pengson Arrieta

Orani, Bataan but he grew up and spend his years in Nueva Ecija. He was born February 22, 1898 and
died June 17, 1980.

e took his college education at the Central Luzon Agricultural College (now Central Luzon State
University), bbut wasn’t able to finish due to poverty.

Cirilo F. Bautista

July 9, 1941 – May 6, 2018

Manila

childhood in Balic-Balic, Sampaloc.[1]

Rosemarie Bautista

Mapa High School (Valedictorian, 1959). He received his degrees in AB Literature from the University of
Santo Tomas (magna cum laude, 1963), MA Literature from St. Louis University, Baguio (magna cum
laude, 1968), and Doctor of Arts in Language and Literature from De La Salle University-Manila (1990).