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Follow on Google News | VGo Recordings CD ReleaseGuitarist, Theresa Calpotura Releases Debut Album Kanta Filipina
By: Vincent Go Kanta Filipina blends a variety of styles from the Philippines, reflecting a musical microcosm in its driving indigenous tribal rhythms, traditional folk dances, chants, lullabies and love songs. Maglalatik (The song of the Coconut Meat Gatherers) from the north shows a kinship to Taiwanese music, and kundiman Paalam Sa Pagkadalaga (Fairwell to Maidenhood) expresses a lyrical Spanish aesthetic. The original works Talagad and Batikusan use southern funeral chant and tribal harvest ritual music respectively. Parang Kahapon Lamang (It Seems Only Yesterday) is an original composition that uses indigenous lullaby forms, and Mutya ng Pasig (Maiden of Pasig River) is a love song turned art song, at the heart of which lies an ancient pre-hispanic form called the kumintang. All of the works convey a uniquely Filipino spirit that Ms. Calpotura hopes to continue to look for and express in her music. Ms. Calpotura has performed in numerous venues throughout the US and the Philippines. She has won a number of awards from associations such as the National Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts and the American String Teachers Association, and received scholarships from the Oberlin Conservatory and the Yale School of Music. Ms. Calpotura studied with the renown guitar pedagogue Scott Cmiel of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and graduated from the Oberlin Conservatory where she studied with versatile guitarist/composer Stephen Aron. She then continued at the Yale School of Music with creative guitarist/composer Benjamin Verdery. Ms. Calpotura has given masterclasses in the US and in the Philippines and is currently on faculty at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music Preparatory Division. In addition to her solo work, Ms. Calpotura founded the groundbreaking cello-guitar duo Ethos with cellist Susan Millar. She has studied the lute with Christopher Morrongiello of the Venere Lute Quartet, jazz guitar with Tony Romano, and has participated in several masterclasses with guitarists such as John Williams, Sharon Isbin, Antigoni Goni, David Tanenbaum, Mark Teicholz, David Leisner, Scott Tennant, Nicholas Goluses, Julian Gray, Ronald Pearl, Lily Afshar, Stanley Yates, John Holmquist and Benjamin Verdery. Bayani Mendoza de Leon is one of the most versatile Filipino-American artists. He is a composer, musician, writer, folklorist, ethnomusicologist, cultural scholar and leader. As composer, he has written works that reflect his Philippine-Asian heritage. He was recipient of the 2008 PAMANA presidential award for outstanding Filipinos overseas from the Philippine Government and the 2008 Most Outstanding Filipino-American Achiever in America award from the Filipino Heritage Foundation, Inc. He was the first Filipino-American composer to write a full-scale symphonic poem, Batong-Buhay (Livingstone) For further details visit the VGo Recordings website: http://www.vgorecordings.com/ End
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