Jose fi no C hi no Tol e d o M.

BY: KAMATOY, JOHN RUIZ

Who is Josefino Chino Toledo?
-He was born on March 6, 1959 Manila, Philippines. Son
of Victor Odulio and Lolita Esteban (Javier) Toledo.
-He is composer-conductor Chino Toledo’s music has
been described as "pure and powerful", and cited for
its fusion of contemporary western language and
Southeast Asian aesthetics.
-”Toledo is one of the Philippines’ finest and best
conductors ever.”
-He is currently the Executive Director of Miriam
College Center for Applied Music, and a full professor
of music composition and   theory at the University of
the Philippines.
Who is Josefino Chino Toledo?
-Toledo is the founding music director of
Metro-Manila Concert Orchestra (MMCO) and
the            Grupo 20/21, a modular music
ensemble.
-Chino studied music at the University of the
Philippines, Cleveland Institute of Music –
Case Western Reserve University in the U.S.,
and at the Conservatoire National Superieur de
Musique in Paris.
-He is noted for premiering works of Filipino
composers as well as other Asian composers
and has conducted concerts in Japan,
Indonesia, Australia, and China.
Who is Josefino Chino Toledo?
-He was the associate artistic director
and conductor of the first Asia-Europe
Music Camp by the Asia-Europe
Foundation.
-Toledo’s own compositions are
regularly performed in international
festivals, concerts and recitals in US,
Canada, Lithuania, Brazil, Israel,
Australia, New Zealand, Italy, France,
Austria, Netherlands, Germany, and
almost all Asian countries.
Who is Josefino Chino Toledo?
-Music critic Rosalinda Orosa described
Toledo as “a composer-conductor of
considerable worth” and “…an ingenious,
remarkably original composer of
singular creativity and imagination.”
Music
His music is characterized by great
energy and often bears a relationship to
the traditional music of Southeast Asia.
Toledo’s works also include music for
theater, films, scoring libraries,
orchestrations and arrangements for
different performing forces, and
revisions and editing of Philippine
Sarsuwela
WORKS:

SARSWELA
In the Philippines, the sarswela is a play
with songs and dances usually written in
prose, containing from one to five acts,
depicting the vagaries of romantic love
among idealized Filipino characters, and
often incorporating contemporary social,
political, economic or cultural issues for
relevance and interest
WORKS:

ISAHAN S A PAG K AK A IS A
(2003) is a commissioned piece and was
premiered by the festival ensemble at
the very first International Rondalla
Festival (2004, in Naga City), and was also
performed in 2007, as well as other
festivals after.
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M A GI NG A N G M G A
DINGGIN:
A S A Y SU M A SA M O N G
KUWERD
– is a commissioned piece for the 5th festival
held in Silay City. It is a prayer for peace from
the different parts of the world, expressed in
the strings, voices and percussion
instruments. This performance in the festival
featured singers from the Philippines, Iran,
Uganda, South Korea, and Portugal, as well as
the plucked strings from the 11 participating
countries.
 
WORKS:

UA SAMA SAM A
MISA LING
is the newest contemporary art music by
composer Prof. Josefino “Chino” Toledo for
choir. It sets the different sections of the Mass
Ordinary and Proper ( Simula: Omnes Chorus,
Kristo Kyrie, Gloriya, Kredo, Santo Sanctus,
Pater Namin, KorDei, Humayo Na: Ite Missa
Est) plus the Lord’s Prayer and Psalm 104,
which will be used as the transition material to
the sections. 
WORKS:

UA SAM A SAMA
MISA LING
The whole work, to be performed for the first time with a new
choreography by the UP Dance Company, is inspired by the
trance-like religious practice of “speaking in tongues,” which is
characterized by a mixing of languages at extremes–High and
Low or Latin and the vernacular–often to the point of the non-
intelligibility of both. This is the concept of heteroglossia,
which the piece vividly manifests as in the juxtaposition,
layering, and segmenting of words, an effect that plays around
notions of orthodoxy and heterodoxy. Toledo, however, believes
his work is accessible; the whole piece is permeated with
chanting and the evocation of ritual and play that are the
essences of arts in human cultures
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