Guitar Recital

November 26, Friday, at 6:30 P.M., My Bro's Mustache

The Philippine International Guitar Festival Official Website

For more details on the Guitar Festival and its featured presenters and performers, please visit the following link:

The Philippine International Guitar Festival

We're pleased to unveil the final programme for the Philippine International Guitar Festival, to be held from the 28th to the 31st of January 2010, at various venues within the Cultural Center of the Philippines.

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Thursday 28 January

8:00-9:30
Registration
Venue: CCP Little Theater Lobby

9:30-10:00
Opening Address
Venue: CCP Little Theater Lobby

10:00-12:00
Concert
Featuring: The Metropolitan Guitar Schools
Venue: CCP Little Theater

12:00-1:00
Lunch Break

1:00-2:30
Lecture: Building a Performing Career
Presenter: Perfecto de Castro
Venue: CCP MKP Hall

3:00-4:30
Concert: 2009 NAMCYA Winners
Featuring: Carlo Antonio Juan, Franco Raymundo Maigue and Ramoncito Carpio
Venue: CCP Little Theater

7:30-9:00
Concert: TABS and the U.P. Guitar Orchestra
Featuring: Lester Demetillo, Armando Derecho and Jerry Duran
Venue: CCP Little Theater

Friday 29 January

10:00-12:00
Masterclass
Presenter: Michael Dadap
Venue: CCP MKP Hall

12:00-1:00
Lunch Break

1:00-2:00
Lecture: Ensemble Playing
Presenter: Lester Demetillo
Venue: CCP MKP Hall

3:00-4:30
Concert: Coalescence
Featuring: Perfecto de Castro
Venue: CCP Little Theater

4:30-6:00
Rehearsal: Festival Guitar Orchestra
Featuring: Lester Demetillo
Venue: CCP MKP Hall

7:30-9:00
Steve Lin Solo Guitar Concert
Venue: CCP Little Theater

Saturday 30 January

9:00-10:00
Lecture: Musicians' Injuries
Presenters: Jeanette Nora I. Silao, M.D., FPCS and Sharon D. Ignacio, M.D., FPARM
Venue: CCP MKP Hall

10:00-12:00
Masterclass
Presenter: Steve Lin
Venue: CCP MKP Hall

12:00-1:00
Lunch Break

1:00-2:30
Lecture: Jazz Improvisation
Presenter: Sixto Roxas
Venue: CCP MKP Hall

3:00-4:30
Concert: Take for example this.... From Jazz Standards to Contemporary Classical

Featuring: Sixto Roxas, Guitars and Lyndon Aguilar, Piano
Venue: CCP Little Theater

4:30-6:00
Rehearsal: Festival Guitar Orchestra
Featuring: Josefino Toledo
Venue: CCP MKP Hall

7:30-9:00
Concert: Harana
Featuring: Florante Aguilar, Michael Dadap and the Harana Kings
Venue: CCP Little Theater
















Sunday 31 January

9:00-10:00
Lecture: Guitar Care
Presenter: Armando Derecho
Venue: CCP MKP Hall

10:00-12:00
Masterclass
Presenter: Florante Aguilar
Venue: CCP MKP Hall

12:00-1:00
Lunch Break

1:00-3:00
Musicality, Intelligence and Technique (M.I.T.)
Featuring: Jose Valdez, Lester Demetillo, Michael Dadap and Sixto Roxas
Venue: CCP MKP Hall

3:00-4:00
Lecture: Flamenco
Presenters: Fundacion Centro Flamenco
Venue: CCP MKP Hall

7:30-9:00
Closing Concert: Huntahang Gitara
Venue: CCP Little Theater

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Thank you for all your support and we hope to see you at the Festival concerts and other activities!

(photographs of the UP Guitar Orchestra by Marga Abejo)

The Philippine International Guitar Festival

More performances!

Lester's performance calendar will be busy over the next few months. Here's a quick snapshot of some of the events:

November 28 ：　My Brother's Mustache Folk Night
Show starts at 9:15pm.

November no date yet): Launching of CCP CD featuring various artists, with "Lament" by Lester Demetillo.

December 12: U.P. Theater all-star cast fund raising concert for Typhoon victims. A project of the U.P. Alumni Association.

January 28-31 : 1st Philippines Guitar Festival at CCP. Participating schools include UP, PWU, St Scholastica's College, Santa Isabel, Centro Escolar University.

February 7-8 : 100 years of World Music at the CCP. Featuring an all star cast. Organised by the UP Alumni Association

We'll bring you further details on these and other performances in the coming weeks.

Singapore Concert

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Acclaimed singer Grace Nono will be performing live in Singapore with Lester Demetillo and other musicians.

The concerts are part of the Singapore National Heritage Board's Philippines Fiesta.

They will be held at the National Museum Gallery Theatre on October 30th and 31st. Tickets are available at Sistic.

We hope to see you there!

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** image credit: Grace Nono by Isa Lorenzo

Fund-raising concert for Ondoy Victims

Lester will be performing with other artists in a fund-raising concert for the victims of Typhoon Ondoy.

The concert will be held at My Brother's Mustache, Scout Tuazon cor. Scout Madrinan. That's on Tuesday, October 6, 2009. The show starts at 7.30pm.

Please come to lend your support for the survivors of this devastating calamity. We hope to see you there!