Canada can be what you make of it, but it won't be solely what you want from it. Benedict Anderson redefined the concept of "nation" as imagined by the people who perceives themselves as part of this socially constructed community, and I remember my former teacher saying that given such an idea, we can even [...]
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Piano Concerto in the 29th Music Biennale Zagreb
onI'm thrilled that a new work of mine, Piano Concerto (Pagkukumahog // [Sa] Paglilok ng Batong Hindi Nakikita), was selected among 9 others for the final stage of the 5-Minute Piano Concerto Competition in the upcoming 29th Music Biennale Zagreb! Its premiere will happen on 26 April 2017in Zagreb, Croatia, and more details will follow when the [...]
Premiere of “C’est tellement mystérieux, les pays des larmes…”
onParticipating in another edition of the Montreal Contemporary Music Lab this June 2016 paved the way for another premiere of a new work entitled C'est tellement mystérieux, le pays des larmes... for two oboes, tuba and piano. This work employs the full performance space, creating imbalanced, polarized positionalities wherein musicians nonetheless attempt to interact with one another. As a [...]
McGill Contemporary Music Ensemble
onUnder the direction of Guillaume Bourgogne, the McGill Contemporary Music Ensemble started on its 2015-2016 concert season this 16th of October 2015, with the premieres of Patricia Almeida's Tempus Fugit and my own work Wilujeng for large ensemble on the program. Franco Donatoni's Holly (with soloist Jacqueline Leclair on the English horn and oboe) and Helmut Lachenmann's Mouvement (-vor der Erstarrung) complete the whole repertoire [...]
Project Bakawan Festival 2015: Listening Terminals
onWith Dayang Yraola curating this project, the installation aims to bring performance/sound art and discourses on the environment out where no one could avoid them: at street lamp posts! Upon invitation, I composed a 2 1/2-minute acousmatic work as my contribution to the sound installation component of this project (and also as a potential platform of discourse [...]
Montreal Contemporary Music Lab 2014
onIt was a very good opportunity for me to join this year's edition of the MCML as I met a lot of composers and musicians from all over Canada and the United States. Besides hearing ideas from composers and collaborating with musicians in the improvisation sessions, I had a premiere of my newest percussion duo [...]
Bagatelles: Philosophical Ventures into the World of the Music Miniature
onThe Manila Composers Lab once again presented a January 2014 concert at the University of the Philippines College of Music featuring piano miniature works written by its composer members. Pianist Mikhail Lastrilla, who is a dear friend of mine, premiered my work Bagatelle in this concert which you can check out in my Soundcloud page.
“Sa Kanyang Munting Yapak” premiere
onMy work Sa Kanyang Munting Yapak (In Her Baby Steps) had been selected for dissonArt Ensemble's "Collaborative Miniature Project" that sought out miniature works from composers all over the world. The ensemble premiered all 111 works in Thessaloniki on 14 October 2013, and you can check out my work in my Soundcloud page!