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1.LUCIO D. SAN PEDRO, SR.
• WAS BORN ON FEBRUARY 11. 1913
IN ANGONO, RIZAL
•HE WAS MUSIC TEACHER IN 1991,
•HE WAS PROCLAIMED BY
PRESIDENT CORE AQUINO AS
NATIONAL ARTIST IN MUSIC
2. ANTONIO J. MOLINA

•HE WAS A COMPOSER, CONDUCTOR, AND MUSIC

ADMINISTRATOR WHO WAS NAMED A NATIONAL ARTIST
OF THE PHILIPPINES IN 1973 FOR HIS SERVICES TO MUSIC.
•HE WAS ALSO KNOWN AS CLAUDE DEBUSSY OF THE
PHILIPPINES DUE TO HIS USE OF IMPRESSIONISM IN MUSIC.
•HE WAS BORN IN MANILA, THE SON OF A GOVERNMENT
OFFICIAL.
•HIS FIRST COMPOSITION WAS "MATINAL".
 3. ANTONIO R. BUENAVENTURA
•HE WAS BORN ON MAY 4, 1904 IN BALIUAG
•HE WAS VIGOROUSLY PURSUED A MUSICAL CAREER THAT
SPANNED SEVEN DECADES OF UNWAVERING
COMMITMENT TO ADVANCING THE FRONTIERS OF
PHILIPPINES MUSIC.
•HE COMPOSED SONG, AND COMPOSITIONS FOR SOLO
INSTRUMENTS AS WELL AS SYMPHONIC AND ORCHESTRAL
WORKS BASED ON THE FOLKSONGS OF VARIOUS
PHILIPPINE ETHNIC GROUPS.
4. HILARIO RUBIO
•HE WAS BORN ON OCTOBER 21
•HE WAS CLOSELY IDENTIFIED WITH THE OF
ORCHESTRA CONDUCTOR FOR OPERA AND
WITH BALLET AND DANCE HE ALSO DID
FOR
•HIS FIRST MUSIC LESSON WAS WITH
FATHER AMANDO WHO TAUGHT THE AND
THE MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
 5. ROSENDO E SANTOS, JR.

•WAS BORN ON SEPTEMBER 3, 1922 IN CAVITE CITY .

•HE WAS EDUCATED IN CAVITE SCHOOLS AND WAS GRADUATE OF THE
UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES. CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC.
•HE LATER SERVED AS A FACULTY MEMBER
•AT AGE 11, BE STARTED COMPOSING BAND MARCHES, INSTRUMENTAL AND
VOCAL SCORES AND CATHOLIC MASSES
•HE WAS LATER NAMED A UNESCO SCHOLAR AND RECEIVED THE
COMPOSER OF THE YEAR AWARD IN MANILA IN 1956 AND 1957 AND WON 12
PRIZES CONSECUTIVELY IN COMPOSITION CONTESTS.
• MOST RECENTLY, HE RECEIVED THE TITLE OF "THE PHILIPPINE COMPOSER OF
THE CENTURY”PROFESSOR SANTOS JOINED THE FACULTY AT WILKES UNIVERSITY,
PENNSYLVANIA IN 1968,
6. RYAN CAYABYAB

• HE WAS BORN IN MANILA IN 1954, AND GRADUATED IN BUSINESS

ADMINISTRATION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF PHILIPPINES.
• HE ALSO FINISHED BACHELOR OF MUSIC IN UP BECAME A COMPLETE
PROFESSOR FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF COMPOSITION AND MUSIC
THEORY IN UP DILIMAN FOR ABOUT TWO DECADES.
• IS A PROMINENT FILIPINO MUSICIAN AND BECOME EXECUTIVE AND
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR OF THE SAN MIGUEL FOUNDATION FOR THE
PERFORMING ARTS
• HIS WORKS VARY FROM SPECIALLY MADE FULL-LENGTH BALLETS,
THEATER MUSICALS, CHON PIECES, A CROWD SET TO UNACCOMPANIED
CHORUS, AND ORCHESTRAL PIECES, TO SALABLE RECORDINGS OF
POPULAR COMPOSITION, FILM SCORES, AND TELEVISION SPECIALS
7. RAMON SANTOS

•HE WAS BORN ON FEBRUARY 25,1941

•IS A FILIPINO COMPOSER, MUSICOLOGIST, AND
STHOOMANCOLOGIST
•IN 2014, HE WAS NAMED NATIONAL ARTIST OF THE
PHILIPPINES FOR MUSIC AND UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR
EMERITUS OF COMPOSITION AND THEORY AT THE
COLLEGE OF MUSIC OF THE UNIVERSITY OF THE
PHILIPPINES MR. SANTOS WAS MADE A CHEVELIER DE
L'ORDRE DES ARTS AT LETTERS IN 1987
 8. JOUFINO "CHINO" TOLEDO

• HE IS A FILIPINO COMPOSER AND CONDUCTOR

• HE TEACHES MUSIC COMPOSITION AND THEORY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF THE
PHILIPPINES COLLEGE OF MUSIC, AND IS COFOUNDER OF THE METRO MANILA
COMMUNITY ORCHESTRA
• HE IS AN ACTIVE AND RECOGNIZED FIGURE IN THE COMTEMPORARY ASIAN MUSIC
SCENE.
• TOLEDO'S MUSIC IS CHARACTERIZED BY GREAT ENERGY AND OFTEN BEATS A
RELATIONSHIP TO THE TRADITIONAL MUSIC OF SOUTHEAST ATSA
• HE WAS A FOUNDER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA,
CROSSWAVE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA PROJECT, AND DE CHAMBER VOCAL ENSEMBLE .
• HE WAS FORMER MUSIC DIRECTOR OF THE MANILA
•DR. FELICIANO
9. FRANCISCO WAS BORN ON FEBRUARY 19, 1941,
F. FELICIANO
AND
•HE OBTAINED HIS DEGREE IN MUSIC COMPOSITION
FROM THE HOCHSCHULE DER KUENSTE IN BERLIN,
GERMANY.
•HIS MASTERS IN MUSIC COMPOSITION FROM THE
UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES AND HIS MASTER
OF MUSICAL ARTS AND DOCTORATE IN MUSICAL
ARTS, COMPOSITION AT YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL
OF MUSIC.