Nilo Alcala

Biography
Alcala has received a number of recognitions, including the 2009 POLYPHONOS Young Composer Award given by the Seattle-based vocal ensemble, The Esoterics. He also received a Young Composer Award from the Asian Composers League, in cooperation with the Israel Composers League in 2004. He won Best Movie Theme Song and was also nominated for Best Film Score at the 34th Metro Manila Film Festival for his music in the movie "Homecoming" by renowned Filipino director Gil Portes. For the same movie, Alcala also received nominations from the Golden Screen Awards of the Entertainment Press Society and the Star Awards for Movies of thePhilippine Movie Press Club. As an arranger, his work in the Sony BMG released Album Acclamation of the renowned Philippine Madrigal Singerswas nominated for Best Vocal Arrangement at the 20th Awit Awardsorganized by the Philippine Association of the Record Industry or PARI. Alcala was member/soloist and resident composer/arranger of the twotimeEuropean Choral Grand Prix winner and UNESCO Artist for Peace Philippine Madrigal Singers. The group has premiered Alcala's compositions in prestigious international festivals and competitions, including the Florilege Vocal de Tours in France, and the European Grand Prix for Choral Singing in Arezzo, Italy. Alcala graduated BS Development Communication from the University of the Philippines Los Baos (BSDC 1999) prior to his admission in 2001 to theUniversity of the Philippines Diliman College of Music. Upon graduating Bachelor of Music in Composition Magna cum laude in 2007, Alcala received the Gawad Chanselor Natatanging Mag-aaral (Chancellor's Outstanding Student Award), an award conferred by University of the Philippines to students with outstanding academic and non-academic achievements. Alcala became full scholar under the Billy Joel Fellowship at Syracuse UniversityCollege of Visual and Performing Arts in upstate New York where he finished Masters in Music Composition and received the Irene Crooker Excellence in Music Award in 2009. Alcala's teachers include Prof. Josefino Chino Toledo, Dr. Jonas Baes, Dr. Christine Muyco, Dr. Ramon P. Santos, Dr. Nicolas Scherzinger, Dr. Gregory Mertl, Dr. Daniel S. Godfrey. He also had master classes with Judith Weir.

Ogie Alcasid
Herminio Jose Lualhati Alcasid, Jr., more popularly known as Ogie Alcasid (born August 27, 1967), is a Filipinosinger-songwriter, television presenter, comedian, parodist, and actor.He is currently the President of OPM (Organisasyon ng Pilipinong Mang-Aawit) and Commissioner of the Edsa People Power Commission.

Educational Background[edit]
ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

La Salle, Greenhills-1974-1981

HIGH SCHOOL

La Salle, Greenhills-1981-1985

COLLEGE

University of the Philippines, Diliman-1986-1993

Television career[edit]
Alcasid's television career started as one of the hosts of comedy show Small Brothers on ABSCBN on 1992. He also appeared on other comedy programs such as ABS-CBN's Mana Mana (from 1991 to 1992), ABC'sTropang Trumpo (from 1994 to 1995), GMA Network's Bubble Gang (from 1995 TO 2013), QTV's Ay, Robot! (from 2005 to 2007), and a sitcom Show Me Da Manny (from 2010 to 2011). He also branched out as a game show host, beginning in ABS-CBN's Game Na Game Na on 1995 and the Philippine version of Family Feud on ABC-5 in 2001. He also hosted Fastbreak, a former basketball game show on IBC 13 in 2002. Alcasid also recently hosted Celebrity Duets: Philippine Edition on GMA with Regine Velasquez and is currently one of the main hosts on musical variety show SOP Rules.[1] Alcasid had his own break in a GMA Primetime drama Hanggang Kailan opposite Lorna Tolentino and Christopher de Leon. This was Alcasid's first drama show and he also sung its main theme with Aiza Seguerra. Alcasid is recently the judge in Pinoy Idol.[2] and hosted in his former game shows Da Big Show and Hole In The Wall (with his fellow co-host, Michael V). He played a spoiled brat Angelina in "Ang Spoiled" segment on Bubble Gang. Alcasid returned to sitcom via "Show Me Da Manny", playing "Manny Pa-Cute". Alcasid also hosted a kids documentary show on GMA, "Kap's Amazing Stories Kids Edition: Featuring Wild Animals", with co-hosts Ramboy Revilla and Jayda Avanzado. In 2013, Alcasid left the main cast of Bubble Gang and bid farewell to GMA Network. He moved to a new channel network, TV5. His first project under the channel was The Mega and The Songwriter which he co-hosts withSharon Cuneta. The show premiered on September 15.

Jonas Baes
Jonas Baes is a Philippine composer born in Los Baos, Laguna in 1961. He enrolled in the University of the Philippines' College of Music in 1977 as a student of Ramon P. Santos, and encountered the musical compositions of Jose Maceda, attended several seminarworkshops of visiting lecturers, and did research on the music of the Iraya-Mangyan people of Mindoro, which became the inspiration for his compositions. From 1992-1994, he studied with Mathias Spahlinger in Freiburg, Germany. Baes is known for writing music utilizing "unorthodox" musical instruments like bean-pod rattles, leaves, iron-nail chimes, as well as various Asian instruments such as bamboo scrapers, bamboo flutes, and vocal music using Asian vocal techniques. His early works in the 1980s were influenced by Maceda in the use of large numbers of performers, while in the 1990s he experimented with various methods by which the audience becomes integral in the performance. At the beginning of the new century, Baes experiments with notions of structure-agency integration [after Anthony Giddens] and simulacrum [afterJean Baudrillard]. It is typical for social theory to influence the work of Baes who has made a mark on contemporary music and cultural politics in the Asian region. Jonas Baes is also active as an ethnomusicologist and writer.

Compositions
Some of Jonas Baes' musical compositions include:

[imagined community, after Benedict Anderson] for four bamboo scrapers, "bamui" trail caller, "sarunai" oboe, "khaen" mouth organ, and about a hundred iron nail chimes distributed among the audience [1997/2001]
WALA [nothingness] for seven or hundreds of men's voices [1997/2001] DALUY [flow] interval music for five animator-percussionists and about a hundred bird whistles distributed among the audience [1994] IBO-IBON [birdwoman] for dancer wearing small bells, two large wind chimes passed around the audience, four animator-callers, and iron nail chimes played by the audience [1996] SALAYSAY [narratives/ inspired by Jean Baudrillard] for solo voice, three percussionists, and pairs of pebbles distributed among the audience PATANGIS-BUWAYA [and the crocodile weeps] for four sub-contrabass recorders or any blown instruments [2003] PANTAWAG [music for calling people] for 15 bamboo scrapers, 15 palm leaves, and 20 muffled "forest" voices [1981] BASBASAN [blessing] for 20 bean-pod rattles and 20 muffled men's voices [1983]

Ely Buendia
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Eleandre Basio Buendia(born 2 November 1970), popularly known as Ely Buendia, is a Filipino musician, writer and director who gained fame as guitarist, songwriter and lead vocalist of the popularPinoy rock band Eraserheads. His compositions gained success and critical acclaim, topping various music charts, and are now considered classics. Widely regarded as one of the most respected music icons in the country, he currently performs as guitarist and lead vocalist for Pupil.

Personal life
Born in Naga City, Buendia first learned Kundiman from his mother while he started playing the guitar at the age of 7 years old. Buendia graduated from Elementary in Pasig Catholic College in 1983 in Pasig City and High School in University of Perpetual Help Rizal. During Elementary, Buendia won in a singing contest where he sang "Doon Lang" by Nonoy Zuniga. Buendia later enrolled to University of the Philippines Diliman where he formed his bands Bluidie Tryste, Sunday School and Eraserheads.[1] Buendia is a member of the international Order of DeMolay from A. Mabini Chapter, Paranaque City. Buendia has two children, Una Aurea, with his first wife, Vicky Cayago, and Eon Drake, with Pupil co-manager Diane Ventura. He had reportedly dated TV 5 host and model Shawn Yao.

Eraserheads
Main article: Eraserheads In December 1989, Ely Buendia, Raimund Marasigan, Marcus Adoro andBuddy Zabala formed the band Eraserheads in their collegiate school, theUniversity of the Philippines, Diliman, where Buendia was a Film major at the College of Mass Communications (he started his first year of college in 1987). The band found that they weren't good at covering other people's hits, so they concentrated on writing their own material instead. "After all, if we committed a mistake no one would recognize it since they don't know the [citation needed] song, right?," Buendia explained . Performing their original songs live soon earned them a cult following in the University, which gradually spread outside the campus. One of the songs, a pop song entitled "Pare Ko", which Buendia wrote, became very popular, partly because of the lyrics which included a few swear words. Eraserheads eventually signed a three-year deal with BMG Pilipinas. Their debut album, "UltraElectroMagneticPop!" featured no less than Pare Ko and a host of other novelty pieces that had people listening and discovering more about the quartet. The album also brought the underground college rockscene into public awareness. 1993 saw the emergence of "Eraserheadsmania" because of successive hit singles, sold-out concerts and thousands of fans. Buendia continued to write songs for the band, many of which became hit singles and classics. Eraserheads' lasted for ten years before finally breaking up with Buendia and Adoro's departure. During those 10 years, the band produced eight studio albums along with other EPs and singles. Their gigs took them out of the country, with tours in the U.S. and other countries. One album, "Aloha Milkyway, was released in the Asian region. Eraserheads were also the first ever Filipino artists to receive the "Moon Man" trophy for winning the 1997 MTV Asia Viewer's Choice Award for the video of their song, "Ang Huling El Bimbo." This hit was also written by Buendia, like many others that the band produced. Eraserheads went onstage for their reunion concert on August 30, 2008 at the Fort Open Field, Taguig City, which was cut short unexpectedly. The continuation of the concert was held at the SM Mall of Asia Concert Grounds on March 7, 2009.

George Canseco
George Masangkay Cansecowas born 23 April 1934 in Naic, Cavite, Philippines and died 19 November 2004 in Manila,Philippines). Canseco was a nationally acclaimed composer of numerous popular Filipinoclassics.

Early Years
Canseco studied and graduated with a Liberal Arts degree atUniversity of the East in thePhilippines. After graduation, he worked for the Philippines Herald and the Associated Press as a journalist. He also free-lanced as a scriptwriter for hire in Manila. Canseco was commissioned by former Philippines First lady,Imelda Marcos, to compose the national tribute hymn, "I Am a Filipino" (Ako Ay Pilipino).

Later career
Canseco wrote the classic "Kapantay Ay Langit", a theme from the award winning motion picture sung by Amapola. It also had an English version titled "You're All I Love" that was sang by American singer Vic Dana that included some Tagalog lines. The song won the Manila Film Festival Best Song Of The Year Award in 1972. Canseco followed it with an English song entitled "Songs" exclusively for "Songs and Amapola" under the Vicor Music Corporation Pioneer Label. Canseco's best known composition, however, was "Child", the Englishlanguage version of Freddie Aguilar's signature song "Ank". He wrote for Sharon Cuneta and Basil Valdez, and his songs were also recorded by Regine Velasquez, Zsa Zsa Padilla, Pilita Corrales, Martin Nievera, and Kuh Ledesma. Rey Valera was a lyricist of two of Canseco's songs. Canseco credited film producer and Vicor Music Corporation owner Vic del Rosario for his biggest break in the music industry. Canseco was elected President of the Filipino Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, Inc.in 1973, and also elected a Councillor for the First District of Quezon City in 1988.

Death[edit]
He died on November 19, 2004, in Manila, Philippines due to cancer.