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As a political protest to the Philippine government's initiative to bury former dictator Ferdinand Marcos in the Libingan ng mga Bayani (Cemetery of Heroes), playwright/spoken word artist Riley Palanca and I collaborated in a radio play depicting vignettes referencing to connections between the atrocities of the past Marcos regime and the present government's haphazard campaign against drugs. I took [...]

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While I didn't make it as a finalist of the Symphony Number One's previous Call for Scores 3, another opportunity is coming up in collaboration, this time, with the Continuum Contemporary Music this 2016-2017! Entitled PIVOT, this initiative by the Canadian Music Centre and the Canadian League of Composers selected me along with 5 other Canadian composers to [...]

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I'm fortunate to be selected as a nominee for the first phase of Symphony Number One's Call for Scores 3! For the subsequent phases of the call, they will select 12 finalists from the 30 nominees and will finally pick three whom they will award commissions and other opportunities for SNO's 2017-18 concert season. They also [...]

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Participating 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 [...]

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My acousmatic miniature works Je suis d'un pas rêveur le sentier solitaire... (my contribution to the Listening Terminals installation in the Project Bakawan Arts Festival last March 2015) and ...J'aime à revoir encor, pour la dernière fois... were featured in a special Sound Art episode of Sigaw ng Bayan MTL (radio talk show) last 22 January 2016! Airing at CKUT 90.3 FM, the [...]

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Under 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 [...]