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 Lucresia Roces
Born:August 31 1918 Kasilag
San Fernando La Union,Philippines
Died:August 16 2008(aged 89}
Manila,Philippines
Occupation:Composer and pianist
Known for:Inc indigenous Filipino
instrument of into orchestral
productions
 Biography
Lucrecia “King” Roces Kasilag was born in
San Fernando, La Union Philippines, the third of
the six children of Marcial Kasilag Sr., a civil
engineer, and his wife Asuncion Roces Ganancial,
a violinist and a violin teacher.[2]: 87–88 She was
Kasilag's first solfeggio teacher. The second was
Doña Concha Cuervo, who was a strict Spanish
woman. Kasilag later studied under Doña Pura
Villanueva, during which time performed her first
public piece, Felix Mendelssohn's May Breezes, at
a student recital when she was ten years old.[2]

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 Biography
Kasilag grew up in Paco, Manila, where she was
educated at Paco Elementary School and
graduated valedictorian in 1930. She then
transferred to Philippine Women's University for
high school, where in 1933 she also graduated as
valedictorian. For college, she graduated cum
laude in 1936 with a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in
English, in the same university. She also studied 1 2 3
music at St. Scholastica’s College in Malate,
Manila, with Sister Baptista Battig, graduating
with a Music Teacher's Diploma, major in piano, in
1939.[2]: 89 [3]

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 BIOGRAPHY
During World War II, she took up
composition, and on 1 December 1945, she
performed her own compositions in a
concert at Philippine Women's University.
From 1946 to 1947, Kasilag taught at the
University of the Philippines’ Conservatory
of Music and worked as secretary-registrar
at Philippines Women's University.
She completed a Bachelor of Music in 1949,
and then attended the
Eastman School of Music in
Rochester, New York, studying theory with
Allen I. McHose and composition with
Wayne Barlow. Kasilag returned to the
Philippines, and in 1953 she was appointed
Dean of the Philippines Women's University
College of Music and Fine Arts.[4]

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After completing her studies, Kasilag made an
international tour as a concert pianist, but eventually
had to give up a performing career due to a
congenital weakness in one hand.
Kasilag was instrumental in developing Philippine
music and culture. She founded the Bayanihan Folks
Arts Center for research and theatrical presentations,
and was closely involved with the Bayanihan
Philippine Dance Company.[5]
She was also a former president of the
Cultural Center of the Philippines, head of the
Asian Composers League, Chairperson of the
Philippine Society for Music Education, and was one
of the pioneers of the Bayanihan Dance Company.
She is credited for having written more than 350
musical compositions, ranging from folksongs to
opera to orchestral works, and was composing up to
the year before she died, at age 89.
Lucrecia Roces Kasilag died due to pneumonia on
August 16, 2008, in Manila, Philippines.[6]

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 WORK IN STAGE
Dularawan: Salakot na Ginto (Image Play: The Golden Salakot) (1969)
Her Son, Jose, operatorio (1977)
The Spiritual Canticle, operatorio (1991)
Filiasiana, choral dance kaleidoscope (1964)
Sisa, ballet (1976)
Why Flowers Bloom in May, opera (2008) 7
Concertos[edit]
Violin Concerto no. 1 (1983)
Violin Concerto no. 2 (1994)
Divertissement for Piano and Orchestra (1960)[7]
Choral music[edit]
Misang Pilipino (Filipino mass) (1966)
De Profundis (1977)
Benedictus, cantata (1990)
Ode to the President (1995)
Orchestral works[edit]
Ang Pamana (The Heritage) (1966)
The Legend of Sarimanok (1963)
In the Beginning (1988)
Centennial Tribute to Filipino Womanhood, Symphonic cycle (1998)
Chamber and solo music[edit]
Derivations I-V, for piano (1961, 1963, 1966, 1969, 1982)
Sonata in G minor, for piano (1957)
Toccata, for Percussion and Winds (1958)
Dialogue for Western Flutes and Pinoy Flutes (1996)
Prelude Etnika and Toccata, for guitar (1996)
Sonata Orientale, for piano (1961)
Scherzino, for piano (1980)
Rondeau, for piano (1981)
Elegy on Mt. Pinatubo, for piano (1992)
Serendipity, for piano (1994)
Music for Indigenous instruments[edit]
Improvisations no. 2, for Muslim gamelan and tipangklong (1970)
Ang Apoy ng mga Hayop (The Fire of Animals), musical tale (1986)
 • Honors and awards[edit]
• Patnubay ng Sining at Kalinangan Award in Music, 1954
• Presidential Award of Merit as Woman Composer, 1956
• Presidential Award of Merit and Gold Medal for
Leadership and Outstanding Contribution to Music and
the Arts, 1960
• Republic Cultural Heritage Award in Music for the Toccata
for Winds and Percussion (1960) and Misang Pilipino (1966)
• Honorary Doctor of Music from Centro Escolar University,
1975
• Honorary Doctor of Laws from the Philippine Women’s
University, 1980
LUCRECIA • Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts from St. John’s University in
New York, 1981
ROCES KASILAG • National Artist of the Philippines, 1989
• Outstanding Filipino Award for the Arts from Jaycee 8
Senate International, 1991
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