Lucio Diestro San Pedro, Sr.

Today, he is remembered for his contribution to the development of Filipino regional band music
and for his well-known compositions such as the Filipino lullaby, "Sa Ugoy ng Duyan" and the
symphonic poem, "Lahing Kayumanggi".Lucio Diestro San Pedro, Sr.[2] (February 11, 1913 –
March 31, 2002) was a Filipino composer and teacher who was proclaimed a National Artist of
the Philippines for Music in 1991.[3] Today, he is remembered for his contribution to the
development of Filipino regional band music[4] and for his well-known compositions such as the
Filipino lullaby, "Sa Ugoy ng Duyan" and the symphonic poem, "Lahing Kayumanggi".[1]

Career
San Pedro came from a family with musical roots and he became his career early. When he was
still young, 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.[5] He also became a faculty
member of the Centro Escolar University Conservatory of Music in Manila. San Pedro was
known for composing the official march of Makati.[citation needed]