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Levi Celerio

Born: April 30, 1910Birthplace: Tondo, Manila Died: April 2, 2002 Race: Asian

Field: Composer

Levi Celerio is a Filipino composer and lyricist, born on April 30, 1910 in Tondo, Manila, Philippines. He
received a free education to the Academy of Music in Manila and became the youngest affiliate of the
Manila Symphony Orchestra. He was a creative songwriter, with more than 4,000 songs to his acclaim
including Filipino folk, Christmas, and love songs that are popular pieces, which many consider to be
immortal.
Famous for being a lyricist, his songs treasure life; express nationalistic sentiments and complete grand
philosophies. At one instance or another, no Filipino can miss the song or lyrics of Levi's Christmas songs
namely Pasko na Naman, Ang Pasko ay Sumapit, and Misa de Gallo.
He is probably best recognized for being a leaf-player, an achievement where he was place into the
Guinness Book of World Records.
He wrote a huge number of songs for local movies, which gained him the Lifetime Achievement Award of
the Film Academy of the Philippines.
He was awarded as National Artist of the Philippines for Music in 1997. He died on April 2, 2002.

Ryan Cayabyab
Born: May 4, 1954

Birthplace: Manila

Race: Asian

Field: Composer

Warmly known as Mr. C, born Raymundo Cipriano Pujante Cayabyab on May 4, 1954 in Manila, Philippines.
Ryan's mother was an opera singer; she died when he was only 6, while his father fight to sustain him and
his three siblings. His mother's wish was that no one of her children would make music as a line of work;
knowing how tough life is for a musician with insufficient income.
Ryan Cayabyab firstly took up Bachelor of Science in Business Administration in the University of the
Philippines, Diliman. But at the same moment, he searched for an employment to sustain his studies, and
sooner join with then-Senator Salvador Laurel as accompanist for the Development Bank of the Philippines
(DBP) Chorale Ensemble. Noting his incomparable ability on the piano, the Senator presented him a
scholarship that would allow Ryan to alter his course and hold learning in music.
Cayabyab afterward graduated from the UP College of Music earning a Bachelor of Music, Major in
Composition degree. Following that, he became a complete professor for the Department of Composition
and Music Theory in the UP Diliman for about two decades. Now, he is presently in his 7th year as
Executive and Artistic Director of the San Miguel Foundation for the Performing Arts.

Felipe Padilla de Leon


Felipe Padilla de Leon (1912-1992) was a major Philippine composer, conductor, and scholar. He was
known best for translating the lyrics of the Philippine National Anthem from the original Spanish to Tagalog.
A recepient of numerous awards and honors, he was posthumously named National Artist of the
Philippines for music in 1997. He was married to Iluminada Bonus Mendoza and the father of six equally

gifted and musical children: (in order of birth) Felipe Mendoza de Leon, Bayani de Leon, Tagumpay de
Leon, Luningning de Leon-Carbonell, Magdangal de Leon and Marilag de Leon-Mendoza.

Jos Maceda
Maceda was born in Manila, Philippines, and studied piano, composition and musical analysis at cole
Normale de Musique de Paris in France. After returning to the Philippines, he became a professional pianist,
and later studied musicology at Columbia University, and anthropology at Northwestern University.
Starting in 1952, he conducted fieldwork on the ethnic Music of the Philippines. From about 1954, he was
involved in the research and composition of musique concrte. In 1958, he worked at a recording
studio in Paris which specialized in musique concrte. During this period, he met Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz
Stockhausen and Iannis Xenakis. In 1963, Maceda earned a doctorate in ethnomusicology from the UCLA.
He began pursuing a compositional career more vigorously. At the same time, he held concerts in Manila
until 1969, in which he performed and conducted. This series of concerts introduced Boulez, Xenakis
and Edgard Varse to the Filipino public.
As an ethnomusicologist, Maceda investigated various forms of music in Southeast Asia, producing
numerous papers and even composing his own pieces for Southeast Asianinstruments. His notable works
include: Pagsamba for 116 instruments, 100 mixed and 25 male voices (1968); Cassette 100 for
100 cassette players (1971); Ugnayan for 20radio stations (1974); Udlot-Udlot for several hundred to
several thousand people (1975); Suling-Suling for 10 flutes, 10 bamboo buzzers and 10 flat gongs (1985).
In 1977, Maceda aimed to study Philippine folk songs which he describes as having more focus on rhythm
rather than time measure.[1] From the 1990s, he also composed for Westernorchestra and piano. The
examples are: Distemperament for orchestra (1992); Colors without Rhythm for orchestra
(1999); Sujeichon for 4 pianos (2002).

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