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ANTONIO JESUS NAGUIAT MOLINA
(1894- 1980)
 ANTONIO JESUS NAGUIAT MOLINA
(1894- 1980)
Molina received numerous awards such as the
Conductor of the Year Award(1953) from the Music
Lovers’ Society, the UP Conservatory Alumni Award
and the Phi Kappa Beta Award(1953). He was the
first musician to be conferred the National Artist for
Music Award (June 12, 1973).
He was a product of both the Romantic and
Impressionist schools of thought, this gave him the title:
“FATHER OF PHILIPPINE IMPRESSIONIST ARTIST”.
 And also known as the Claude Debussy of
the Philippines due to his use if impressionism in
music.
He was a Filipino composer, conductor, and
music administrator. He wrote over 500 musical
composition, including “Hatinggabi” and “Awit in
Maria Clara”. He is best known for his
poignantly romantic serenade for violin and
piano of Hatinggabi.
RAMON PAGAYON SANTOS
(1941)
 RAMON PAGAYON SANTOS
(FEBRUARY 25, 1941)

Ramon Santos is a Filipino composer,

musicologist, and ethnomusicologist.
Santos’ compositional style features
chromaticism, music seria, and electronic
components, combined with indigenous
Philippine music elements.
 He composed the popular song
Dahil Sa Iyo in 1938. In 1975 the
Philippine Government Cultural
Association awarded him the Cultural
Achievement Award in Popular Music.
He received the Gawad CCP para sa
Sining in 1986.
He was conferred the title of
National Artist for Music in 2014.
JOVITA FUENTES
(1895-1973)
 JOVITA FUENTES
(1895-1973)
Long before Lea Salonga’s break into
Broadway, there was already Jovita Fuentes’
portrayal of “Cio-cio-san in Giacomo Puccini’s
Madame Butterfly” at Italy’s Teatro Municipale di
Piacenza. Her performance was hailed as the
“most subline interpretation of the part”.
Jovita Fuentes was recognized as National
Artist of the Philippines for Music in 1976.
 Fuentes garnered numerous award other
awards and citations, including the Presidential
Medal of Merit in Music in 1958.
Fuentes became a teacher at the UP
Conservatory of Music and other schools. She
established the Artists’ Guild of the Philippines
that called for Filipino artists to make their own
operas.
ANTONINO R. BUENAVENTURA
(1904-1996)
 ANTONINO R. BUENAVENTURA
(1904-1996)
A music instructor and band conductor of the
Philippine Military Academy(PMA).
Composer, Conductor, and Teacher.
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.
YEAR AWARDED AS NATIONAL
ARTIST FOR MUSIC

1988
(Living Awardee)
 MAJOR WORK
His orchestral music compositions include:
Concert Overture,
Prelude and Fugue in G minor,
Philippines Triumphant,
Mindanao Sketches,
Symphony in C Major, among others.
 DESCRIPTION OF HIS WORKS
Some of the outstanding work that he wrote:
“Minuet”(1937), which borrowed largely
from Igorot tunes for its thematic thrust.
“Padanggo sa ilaw”(1936), the dance
involved from Fandango, a Spanish folk dance,
which arrived in the Philippines during the
Hispanic period.
LUCRECIA ROCES KASILAG
(1918-2008)
 LUCRECIA ROCES KASILAG
(1918-2008)
An educator, composer, performing artist, administer
and cultural entrepreneur of national and
international calibre, had involved herself wholly
sharpening the Filipino audience’s appreciation of
music.
She is particularly known for incorporating
indigenous Filipino instrument into orchestral
productions.
YEAR AWARDED AS NATIONAL ARTIST
FOR MUSIC

1989
 MAJOR WORK
Orchestral Music: Chamber Music:
Love Songs, Awit ng mga Awit
Legend of the Sarimanok, Psalms,
Ang Pamana, Fantaisie on a 4-Note
Theme, and
Philippine Scenes,
East Meets Jazz
Her Son, Ethnika.
Jose,
Sisa
 DISCRIPTION OF HER WORKS

Her orchestral music includes Love

Song, Legend of the Sarimanok, Ang
Pamana, Philippines Scenes, Her Son, Jose,
Sisa and chamber music like Awit ng mga
Awit Psalms, Fantaisie on a 4-Note Theme,
and East Meets Jazz Ethika.
JOSE MACEDA
(1917-2004)
 JOSE MOTSERRAT MACEDA
(1917-2004)

 Composer, Musicologist, Teacher and

Performer, explored the musicality of the
Filipino deeply.
Maceda’s experimentation also freed
Filipino musical expression from a strictly
Eurocentric mold.
YEAR AWARDED AS NATIONAL
ARTIST FOR MUSIC

1997
 MAJOR WORK
Agungan l Ugma-ugma(1963)
Kubing  Pagsamba(1968)
Pagsamba  Udlot-udlot(1975)
Ugnayan
Ading
Aroding
Siasid
Suling-suling
DISCRIPTION OF HIS WORKS

Ugma-ugma (1963) – a work for voice and ethnic instruments

Agungan (1975) – a piece for six gong families
Pagsamba (1968) – a musical ritual for a circular auditorium using
several ethnic precussion instrument
Cassettes 100 (1971) – a composition for 100 cassette tape
recorders
Ugnayan (1974) – an ethnic piece played at the same time over
several radio stations
ANDREA OFILADA VENERACION
(1928- 2013)
 ANDREA OFILADA VENERACION
(1928- 2013)

 Highly esteemed for her achievements as choirmaster

and choral arranger.
 Two of her indispensable contributions in culture and the
arts include the founding of the Philippine Madrigal
Singers and the spearheading of the development of
Philippine choral music.
Also known as Ma’am OA
She was also an adjudicator in numerous
international choral competitions and was an active
force in coral music before her massive stroke in
2005.
She was a Filipina choral conductor and a
recipient of the National Artist of the Philippines for
Music Award.
 She founded the Philippine Madrigal Singers in
1963.
YEAR AWARDED AS NATIONAL
ARTIST FOR MUSIC

1999
FRANCISCO FELICIANO
(1941-2014)
 FRANCISCO FELICIANO
(1941-2014)
Composer, Conductor, or Educator
Contributed to bringing the awareness of
people all over the world to view the Asian
culture as a rich source of inspiration and a
celebration of our ethnicity, particularly the
Philippines.
YEAR AWARDED AS NATIONAL
ARTIST FOR MUSIC

2014
 MAJOR WORK
 Buksan mo ang aming mga labi ( 1982)
Mass of Saint Andrew (1981)
Pamugun (choral,with soprano solo. 2002)
Pokpok Alimpako (2002)
Three Visayan Folksongs ( 1998)
DISCRIPTION OF HIS WORKS
He first exploded into the Manila spotlight
with the opera “La Loba Negra”.
 Other prize-winning work include “Pokpok
Alimpako”, the ballet “Yerma”, “Sikhay Sa
Kabila ng Paalam(Beyond the Farewell)”, “Jose
Abad Santos”, and “Ashen Wings”.
LUCIO D. SAN PEDRO
(1913-2002)
Lucio San Pedro is known as a
“Creative Nationalist” for his artistic
way of showing love for his country.
 San Pedro excelled as a teacher,
conductor, and composer.
He won countless awards, the most
prominent being his conferment .
YEAR AWARDED AS NATIONAL
ARTIST FOR MUSIC

1991
 MAJOR WORKS

ORCHESTRAL COMPOSITIONS
 Suite Pastorale(1956)
Lahing Kyumanggi(1962)
DISCRIPTION OF HIS WORKS

Suite Pastorale(1956), poetic

aural description of his hometown
Angono
Lahing Kyumanggi(1962)
Nationalistic symphony poem
FELIPE PADILLA DE LEON
(1912-1992)
 FELIPE PADILLA DE LEON
(1912-1992)
Felipe Padilla De Leon is a composer, conductor, and
scholar.
 He study and enrolled at the Conservatory of music,
University of the Philippines where he study under Col.
Antonio Buenaventura and Antonio Molina.
YEAR AWARDED AS NATIONAL
ARTIST FOR MUSIC

(1997)
 DISCRIPTION OF HIS WORKS

Noli me tangere (1957)

El filibusterismo (1970)
These two operas have been stage in the
Philippines and abroad.
 De Leon’s orchestral music include Mariang
Makiling Overture(1939), Roca Encantada,
symphonic leged(1950), Maynila
Overture(1976), Orchesterstuk(1981); coral
music like Payapang Daigdig, Ako’y Pilipino,
Lupang Tinubuan, Ama Namin; and songs
Bulaklak, Alitaptap, and Mutya ng Lahi.
 MAJOR WORKS

Bagong Pagsilang (New Birth).

Tayo’y Magtanim (Let Us Plant).
Ang Karomata
Tindig aking inang Bayan
Myomi Theme and variation
LEVI CELERIO
(1910-2002)
 SHORT BACKGROUND
He was a Filipino and lyricist who is
credited to writing not less than 4,000 songs.
He is also known for using the leaf as a
musical instrument which to being recognized
as the “Only man who could play music a leaf”
by the Guinness World of Record.
 AWARD OF LEVI CELERIO

(1997)National Artist of the

Phililppines for music and
literature
 MAJOR WORKS

“Kahit konting pagtingin”

“San ka man naroroon”
“Sa ugoy ng duyan”
“Ang pasko ay sumapit’’